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Anomalous Damping of a Microelectromechanical Oscillator in Superfluid ^{3}He-B
P Zheng1, W G Jiang1, C S Barquist1
1Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611-8440, USA.
Abstract:
The mechanical resonance properties of a microelectromechanical oscillator with a gap of 1.25 μm was studied in superfluid ^{3}He-B at various pressures. The oscillator was driven in the linear damping regime where the damping coefficient is independent of the oscillator velocity. The quality factor of the oscillator remains low (Q≈80) down to 0.1T_{c}, 4 orders of magnitude less than the intrinsic quality factor measured in vacuum at 4 K. In addition to the Boltzmann temperature dependent contribution to the damping, a damping proportional to temperature was found to dominate at low temperatures. We propose a multiple scattering mechanism of the surface Andreev bound states to be a possible cause for the anomalous damping.
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