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Helium wetting: Theme and variations on inhomogeneous helium

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The surprising discovery, in 1991, that liquid helium does not wet a cesium surface at low temperature has triggered an important activity both theoretical and experimental: helium has become a model system for the study of wetting transitions. After summarizing the main theme of helium wetting, I will focus on more recent studies, such as the structure and excitations of helium interfaces, experiments on the capillary rise, the “surfactant effect” of helium-3 impurities on liquid helium-4 and the “quantum prewetting transition” of pure helium-3. Unexpected consequences on the phase separation of3He−4He mixtures in restricted geometry will be drawn.

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Treiner, J. Helium wetting: Theme and variations on inhomogeneous helium. Czech J Phys 46 (Suppl 6), 2957–2964 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02548097

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