NMR study of the dynamics of 3He impurities in the proposed supersolid state of solid 4He
1Department of Physics and National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, University of Florida, Tallahassee, 32611, USA. sungkim@phys.ufl.edu
Abstract:
The dynamics of (3)He atoms in solid (4)He have been investigated by measuring the NMR relaxation times T(1) and T(2) in the region where a significant nonclassical rotational inertia fraction has been reported. For (3)He concentrations x(3)=16 and 24 ppm, changes are observed for both the spin-lattice relaxation time T(1) and the spin-spin relaxation time T(2) at the temperatures corresponding to the onset of the nonclassical rotational inertia fraction and, at lower temperatures, to the (3)He-(4)He phase separation. The magnitudes of T(1) and T(2) at temperatures above the phase separation agree roughly with existing theory based on the tunneling of (3)He impurities in the elastic strain field due to isotopic mismatch. However, a distinct peak in T(1) and a less well-resolved feature in T(2) are observed near the reported nonclassical rotational inertia fraction onset temperature, in contrast to the temperature-independent relaxation times predicted by the tunneling theory.
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