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Prediction of reentrant wetting of3He-4He mixtures on cesium

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We examine the effect of3He impurities on the wetting behavior of4He on cesium, predicting a phase diagram which includes reentrant wetting transitions. This phase diagram is shown to be very sensitive to effects such as a theoretically predicted bound state of3He at the liquid-cesium interface, and the contact angle may be sensitive to interesting temperature dependences of the helium-cesium surface tension resulting from surface rotons or Rayleigh waves.

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  1. Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 24, rue Lhomond, 75231, Paris, Cedex 05, France

    M. S. Pettersen

  2. Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, Ohio, USA

    W. F. Saam

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Pettersen, M.S., Saam, W.F. Prediction of reentrant wetting of3He-4He mixtures on cesium. J Low Temp Phys 90, 159–165 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00681997

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