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The solid-liquid surface tension at a helium/cesium interface

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The existence of a wetting transition for helium adsorbed on cesium provides an experimental opportunity to investigate the solid-liquid surface tension. We have extracted the temperature dependence of the solid-liquid surface tension at the4He/Cs interface from our earlier measurements of the wetting temperature of pure4He on thin layers of cesium overlaying gold. More recently we have measured the wetting temperature as a function of the3He concentration for3He-4He mixtures. An analysis of these experiments paralleling Andreev's investigation of the free surface reveals3He bound states at the helium/cesium interface.

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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, 92717-4575, Irvine, CA

    J. E. Rutledge, D. Ross & P. Taborek

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This work was supported by NSF grant DMR-9223775.

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Rutledge, J.E., Ross, D. & Taborek, P. The solid-liquid surface tension at a helium/cesium interface. J Low Temp Phys 101, 217–223 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00754579

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