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Dispersion Relation in Liquid Helium

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THE normal mode representation1 of the excitations in liquid helium describes the thermodynamic behaviour below the lambda point as the vibrational modes among a temperature dependent population of diatomic rotors. The excitation spectrum has now been obtained from the theory on the assumption of an observed empirical relation.

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BORST, L. Dispersion Relation in Liquid Helium. Nature 209, 187–188 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/209187a0

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