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Positive Ion Mobility in Normal and Superfluid 3He at High Magnetic Field

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We have measured the mobility of positive ions (“snowballs”) in liquid 3 He at magnetic fields H = 0 − 12 T and temperatures T = 0.3 − 10 mK. In normal 3 He, with increasing magnetic field the mobility first increases and then decreases nearly quadratically. The initial rise of the mobility is most strongly seen at the lowest temperatures (T = 2.5−3 mK) and high pressures (p = 29 bar) where at H = 6 T the mobility reaches a maximum enhancement of about 6 %. We attribute this effect to the suppression of the exchange scattering with magnetic field and thus infer the value of the exchange scattering cross-section. In the superfluid A 1 and A 2 phases, the relative increase of the ion mobility, as the sample is cooled below the transition temperature, is about twice as small as in the A or B phases.

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  1. A. Golov

    Present address: LASSP, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 14853, USA

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  1. Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, 7-22-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 106, Japan.

    A. Golov, K. Obara, H. Ikegami, H. Akimoto & H. Ishimoto

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Golov, A., Obara, K., Ikegami, H. et al. Positive Ion Mobility in Normal and Superfluid 3He at High Magnetic Field. Journal of Low Temperature Physics 110, 225–230 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022555910367

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