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Hydrostatic Theory of Superfluid 3He-B

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The determination of the texture of the order parameter is important for understanding many experiments in superfluid 3He. In addition to reviewing the theory of textures in superfluid 3He-B we give several new results, in particular on the surface parameters in the Ginzburg–Landau region and bulk parameters at arbitrary temperature. Special attention is paid to separate the results that are valid at all temperatures from those which are limited to the Ginzburg–Landau region. We study the validity of a trivial strong-coupling model, where the energy gap of the weak-coupling theory is scaled by a temperature dependent factor. We compare the theory with several experiments. For some quantities the theory seems to work fine and we extract the dipole–dipole interaction parameter from the measurements.

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Thuneberg, E.V. Hydrostatic Theory of Superfluid 3He-B. Journal of Low Temperature Physics 122, 657–682 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004898420870

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