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X-ray scattering experiments on bulk liquid 3He (Albergamo et al. in Phys. Rev. Lett. 99:205301, 2007; Schmets and Montfrooij in Phys. Rev. Lett. 100:239601, 2008; Albergamo et al. in Phys. Rev. Lett. 100:239602, 2008) have indicated the possibility of the existence of a sharp collective mode at large momentum transfers. We address this issue within a manifestly microscopic theory of excitations in a Fermi fluid that can be understood as proper generalization of the time-honored theory of Jackson, Feenberg, and Campbell (Jackson in Phys. Rev. A 8:1529, 1973; Feenberg in Theory of Quantum Fluids, 1969; Chang and Campbell in Phys. Rev. B 13:3779, 1976) of excitations in 4He. We show that both neutron and X-ray data can be well explained within a theory where the high momentum excitations lie in fact inside the particle-hole continuum. “Pair fluctuations” contribute a sharpening of the mode compared to the random phase approximation (RPA). When the theoretical results are convoluted with the experimental resolution, the agreement between theory and X-ray data is quite good.
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Krotscheck, E., Panholzer, M. Theoretical Analysis of Neutron and X-ray Scattering Data on 3He. J Low Temp Phys 163, 1–12 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-010-0308-y
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