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Light Scattering As a Probe of Liquid Helium

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Low Temperature Physics-LT 13

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Laser light sources and advances in optical spectrometers have made possible the use of inelastic light scattering as a probe of liquid helium. Pure 4He, pure 3He, and isotopic mixtures have been studied in several laboratories. The experiments fall into two categories: Brillouin and Raman scattering. Brillouin scattering measures the spectrum of the equilibrium density fluctuations which contains contributions from all the hydrodynamic modes of the liquid. The velocity and attenuation of high-frequency first and second sound have been obtained by this technique, and it is currently being used to study the dynamics of the critical regions associated with the lambda transition and with the tricritical point. Raman scattering gives information about the elementary excitations in the medium. These experiments have been used to measure roton linewidths, to demonstrate the existence of a bound state of two rotons, and to study optical phonons in solid helium.

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  2. National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., USA

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Greytak, T.J. (1974). Light Scattering As a Probe of Liquid Helium. In: Timmerhaus, K.D., O’Sullivan, W.J., Hammel, E.F. (eds) Low Temperature Physics-LT 13. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7864-8_2

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