Oscillating nematic aerogel in superfluid 3He
V. V. Dmitriev+, M. S. Kutuzov*, A. A. Soldatov+, E. V. Surovtsev+, A. N. Yudin+
+P. L. Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems of Russian Academy of Sciences, 119334 Moscow, Russia
*Metallurg Engineering Ltd., 11415 Tallinn, Estonia
Abstract
We present experiments on nematic aerogel oscillating in superfluid
3He. This aerogel consists of nearly parallel mullite strands and is attached
to a vibrating wire moving along the direction of the strands. Previous nuclear
magnetic resonance experiments in 3He confined in similar aerogel sample have
shown that the superfluid transition of 3He in aerogel occurs into the polar
phase and the transition temperature (Tca) is only slightly suppressed with
respect to the superfluid transition temperature of bulk 3He. In present
experiments we observed a change in resonant properties of the vibrating wire at
T=Tca and found that below Tca an additional resonance mode is excited
which is coupled to the main resonance.