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Conductivity of the Wigner Solid on the Free Surface of Superfluid 3He-B

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We have measured the conductivity of the 2D electron crystal (the Wigner solid) trapped on the free surface of superfluid 3 He-B down to 230 μK. The resistance R(T) greatly decreases as temperature T decreases, obeying Arrhenius' law, R(T) ∝ exp (−Δ(T)/k B T), with Δ(T) which we assign to the superfluid energy gap. This reveals that the scattering of 3 He quasiparticles by the WS determines the transport. As the input voltage increases, an anomalous behavior dominates the resistance just below the superfluid transition. The WS provides a new experimental method for probing both the bulk and free surface of superfluid 3 He.

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  1. Oleg I. Kirichek

    Present address: Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering, 47 Lenin Avenue, 310164, Kharkov, Ukraine

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

    Keiya Shirahama, Oleg I. Kirichek & Kimitoshi Kono

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Shirahama, K., Kirichek, O.I. & Kono, K. Conductivity of the Wigner Solid on the Free Surface of Superfluid 3He-B. Journal of Low Temperature Physics 110, 179–184 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022591423571

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