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Study of Superfluid \(^3\)He Under Nanoscale Confinement

A New Approach to the Investigation of Superfluid \(^3\)He Films

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We review recent experiments in which superfluid \(^3\)He has been studied under highly controlled confinement in nanofluidic sample chambers. We discuss the experimental challenges and their resolution. These methods open the way to a systematic investigation of the superfluidity of \(^3\)He films, and the surface and edge excitations of topological superfluids.

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Acknowledgments

We thank S. Dimov, S. S. Verbridge for assistance with cell construction at Cornell; S. T. Boogert and A. Bosco for advice and loan of equipment for the optical thickness measurement. We thank G. Volovik, A. Vorontsov, J. Sauls and E. V. Surovtsev for theoretical input. This work was supported by: EPSRC grants EP/C522877/1, EP/E0541129/1, EP/J022004/1; NSF grants DMR-0806629, DMR-120991; European Microkelvin Consortium (FP7 grant agreement no. 228464).

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  1. Department of Physics, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey,  TW20 0EX, UK

    L. V. Levitin, R. G. Bennett, A. Casey, B. Cowan & J. Saunders

  2. Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Abbestrasse 2-12,  Berlin,  10587, Germany

    D. Drung & Th. Schurig

  3. Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY,  14853, USA

    J. M. Parpia, B. Ilic & N. Zhelev

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Levitin, L.V., Bennett, R.G., Casey, A. et al. Study of Superfluid \(^3\)He Under Nanoscale Confinement. J Low Temp Phys 175, 667–680 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-014-1145-1

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