JOURNAL OF LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS

Vol. 101, Nos. 1/2                                         October 1995
 


Special Issue: Symposium on Quantum Fluids and Solids

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, June 13-18, 1995

Part I

CONTENTS

 
Conference Program
 
Preface                                                               7
J. M. Parpia
 
 

INVITED TALKS

 
A Highly Sensitive Nuclear Recoil Detector Based on Superfluid 3He-B  9
D. I. Bradley, Yu. M. Bunkov, D. J. Cousins, M. P. Enrico,
S. N. Fisher, M. R. Follows, A. M. Guenault, W. M. Hayes,
G. R. Pickett and T. Sloan
 
Primary Thermometry with Nanoscale Tunnel Junctions                  17
K P. Hirvi, J. P. Kauppinen, M. A. Paalanen and J. P. Pekola
 
The Extraordinary Phenomena of Weak Adsorption                       25
M. W. Cole
 
Review of Some of the Experimental Evidence for the Novel Wetting of
Helium on Alkali Metals                                              31
R. B. Hallock
 
Optical Interferometry at Ultra Low Temperatures                     41
P. J. Hakonen, H. Alles, A. V. Babkin, and J. P. Route
 
The Quest for Bose-Einstein Condensation in Atomic Hydrogen          49
I. F Silvera
 
Sub-surface Imaging with the Magnetic Resonance Force Microscope     59
P. C. Hammed, Z. Zhang, G. J. Moore, and M. L. Roukes
 
Nuclear Cooling of hcp Solid 3He                                     71
H. Ishimoto, T. Okamoto, H. Fukuyama and H. Akimoto
 
GRAIL: A 10mK, 100ton Spherical Gravitational Wave Antenna           81
G. Frossati
 
3He-4He Mixtures in Aerogel                                          95
N. Abraders, J. Ma, S. B. Kim, J. S. Soon, and M. H. W. Chan
 
Heat Release, Refrigeration and Thermometry in 3He-4He Solutions at 
Very Low Temperatures                                               107
R. Konig, A. Betat, L. P. Roobol, A. Voncken, and F. Pobell
 
Spin Dynamics at the Dipole Unlocking Transition in 3He-A           117
H Hall, J. Hook, R. Haley, and F. Chancy
 
NMR in Superfluid 3He at Very Low Temperatures                      123
Yu. M. Bunkov and S. Fisher
 
Vortex Sheet in Superfluid 3He-A                                    135
E. V. Thuneberg
Experiments on Fermi Liquid Domains in Normal and Superfluid 3He    141
V. V. Dmitriev, V. V. Moro, and S. R. Zakazov
 
Polarized Liquid 3He in a 4He Circulating Dilution Refrigerator     151
A. Rodrigues and G. Vermeulen
 
2D Liquid 3He Near Solidification: a Highly Correlated Fermi Liquid 161
K.-D. Morhard, C. Bauerle, J. Bossy, Yu. M. Bunkov, S. N. Fisher,
and H. Godfrin
 
An Experiment to Measure the Diffusion of 4He in 3He in the Fermi
Liquid Region                                                       167
J. He, T. G. Culman, D. O. Edwards, and H. H. Hjort
 
NMR, Optical, and Plastic Flow Experiments in bcc 3He-4He Mixture
Crystals&emdash;in Pursuit of a Vacancy Fluid                              177
E. Polturak, 1. Schuster, 1. Berent, Y. Carmi, S. Lipson,
and B. Chabaud
 
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of 3He Superfluid Confined in High
Porosity Aerogel                                                    185
D. T. Sprague, T. M. Haard, J. B. Kycia, M. R. Rand, Y. Lee, 
P. J. Hamot, and W. P. Halperin
 
Hydrogen in an Oscillating Porous Vycor Glass                       195
Y. Kondo, M. Schindler, and F. Pobell
 
 

WETTING WORKSHOP

 
A More Accurate Model of Wetting Transitions with Liquid Helium     205
J. Dupont-Roc and B. Demolder
 
Quantum Fluids on Alkali Metal Surfaces                             211
G. Mistura, D. Reinelt, S. Herminghaus, P. Leiderer,
and M. H. W. Chan
 
The Solid-Liquid Surface Tension at a Helium/Cesium Interface       217
J. E. Rutledge, D. Ross, and P. Taborek
 
Continuous Wetting Transitions in Adsorbed Xe Films                 225
W. F. Saam and V. B. Shenoy
 
Experiments to Search for a Substrate State for 3He Adjacent to
Surfaces in 3He-4He Mixtures                                        231
P. A. Sheldon, J. P. Vithayathil, and R. B. Hallock
 
 

WORKSHOPS ON CRYOGENIC APPARATUS

 
Summary of the Two Cryogenic Techniques Workshops at SYQFAS-95      237
E. N. Smith
 
 

CONTRIBUTED TALKS

 
1 MHz Bandwidth True NMR SQUID Amplifier                            243
S. L. Thomasson and C. M. Gould
 
Efficient Cryogenic Design, a System Approach                       249
E. T. Swartz
 
NMR-Investigations on Thallium Samples of High Spin Polarization    253
J. Leib, M. Huebner, S. Gotz, Th. Wagner, and G. Eska
 
A Geometry Dependent Thermal Resistance Between a Saturated Dilute
3He-4He Solution and Sintered Silver Powder                         259
D. J. Cousins, A. M. Guenault, G. R. Pickett, P. Thibault,
R. P. Turner, E. N. Smith, C. Bauerle, Yu. M. Bunkov, S. N. Fisher,
and H. Godfiin
Thermal Conductivity Study of Thin He Films Adsorbed in Porous
Glasses with Well Controlled Pore Sizes                             265
M. Kubota, T. Iida, G. Ueno, V. Kovacik, M. Fukuda, T Yano,
and M. Zalalutdinov
 
Quantum Cavitation in Superfluid Helium 4?                          271
S. Balibar, C. Guthmann, H. Lambare, P. Roche, E. Rolley,
and H. J. Maris
 
Superfluidity of 4He Films Adsorbed on Hydrogen Plated Graphite     279
J. Nyeki, R. Ray, V. Maidanov, M. Siqueira, B. Cowan,
and J. Saunders
 
Observation of 3He Crystal Nucleation From the Superfluid Phases	287
R. Wagner, S. C. Steel, O. A. Andreeva, A. N. Marchenkov,
R. Jochemsen, and G. Frossati
 
Andreev Rellection of a Beam of Ballistic Quasiparticle Excitations
Incident on a Static B-A Phase Interface in Superfluid 3He          293
D. J. Cousins, M. P. Enrico, S. N. Fisher, A. M. Guenault,
S. L. Phillipson, G. R. Pickett, N. S. Shaw, and P. J. Y. Thibault
 
Study of Rotons in Superfluid 4He by Raman Scattering               299
L. Reatto
 
3He Melting Pressure Thermometry                                    305
W. Ni, J. S. Xia, E. D. Adams, P. S. Haskins, and J. E. McKisson
 
NMR Studies of Highly Polarized Liquid 3He-4He Mixtures             311
P.-J. Nacher and E. Stoltz
 
Thermal Anomalies in Molecular Hydrogen Supercooled in Vycor Porous
Glass                                                               317
D. F. Brewer, J. C. N. Rajendra, and A. L. Thomson
 
Contents of Next Issue                                              323
 
 

 


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