1997
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.55.12620
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Onset of superfluidity inHe4films adsorbed on disordered substrates

Abstract: We have studied 4 He films adsorbed in two porous glasses, aerogel and Vycor, using high precision torsional oscillator and DC calorimetry techniques. Our investigation focused on the onset of superfluidity at low temperatures as the 4 He coverage is increased. Torsional oscillator measurements of the 4 He-aerogel system were used to determine the superfluid density of films with transition temperatures as low as 20 mK. Heat capacity measurements of the 4 He-Vycor system probed the excitation spectrum of both … Show more

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“…The detection of the Bose glass phase in these systems has remained ambiguous however. The experiments on 4 He in porous media for example were more convincingly explained by a model which has a constant density of states for low and for high energies, with a gap in between [63]. Recently, also cold atom systems came at our disposal, with their unique properties of tunability and control.…”
Section: Experimental Systemsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The detection of the Bose glass phase in these systems has remained ambiguous however. The experiments on 4 He in porous media for example were more convincingly explained by a model which has a constant density of states for low and for high energies, with a gap in between [63]. Recently, also cold atom systems came at our disposal, with their unique properties of tunability and control.…”
Section: Experimental Systemsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Increasing the field beyond a critical value drives the system through a QPT from Bose glass to magnetic BEC, characterized by spontaneous long-range antiferromagnetism in the plane transverse to the field. In particular the critical temperature to condensation is shown to scale with the applied field as T c ∼ |h − h c | φ with φ = 1.1 (1), where h represents the dimensionless magnetic field and h c its critical value. A seemingly puzzling feature is that the only theoretical prediction for the φ exponent, stemming from Ref.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The introduction of disorder causes a further phase transition into a localised Bose glass phase, which is insulating but remains compressible [2]. The experimental study of phase transitions in bosonic systems is possible using helium in porous media [3,4], Josephson junction arrays [5], thin films [6,7] and, more recently, optical lattices [1,8]. It is now possible to introduce disorder in a controlled manner to optical lattices using speckle potentials [9,10] to study these transitions directly [11,12].…”
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