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Quantum statistics and liquid helium-3--helium-4 mixtures

E G Cohen

    Science (New York, N.Y.)
    |July 1, 1977
    PubMed
    Summary

    Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics explain helium-4 and helium-3 behaviors, respectively. A simple hard-sphere model predicts phase diagrams and phenomena like incomplete phase separation in helium mixtures.

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