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Supercooling of liquid H2 and the possible production of superfluid H2

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We discuss the extent to which it may be possible to supercool liquid H2 below its normal freezing temperature. We show that there is a significant prospect that H2 could be supercooled to arbitrarily low temperatures, and that in this way superfluid H2 might be produced. A brief discussion is given of the properties of the anticipated superfluid phase.

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  1. Physics Department, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

    H. J. Maris, G. M. Seidel & T. E. Huber

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Supported in part by the NSF through grants DMR 80-12284 and DMR 8105328-01 and through the Materials Research Laboratory of Brown University.

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Maris, H.J., Seidel, G.M. & Huber, T.E. Supercooling of liquid H2 and the possible production of superfluid H2 . J Low Temp Phys 51, 471–487 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00683224

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