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Ye Vekhov1, W J Mullin1, R B Hallock1
1Laboratory for Low Temperature Physics, Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA.
Abstract:
The mass flux, F, carried by as-grown solid (4)He in the range 25.6-26.3 bar rises with falling temperature, and at a concentration-dependent temperature, T(d), the flux decreases sharply within a few mK. We study F as a function of (3)He impurity concentration, χ. We find that T(d) is an increasing function of increasing χ. At temperatures above T(d) the flux has a universal temperature dependence and the flux terminates in a narrow window near a characteristic temperature T(h) ≈ 625 mK, which is independent of χ.
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