TY - JOUR

T1 - Textured superfluids.

AU - McClintock, Peter V. E.

PY - 1975/2/20

Y1 - 1975/2/20

N2 - In a recent communication from the Low Temperature Laboratory of the Helsinki University of Technology, Ahonen, Haikala, Krusius and Lounasmaa describe their transverse nuclear magnetic resonance experiments on superfluid 3He over a wide range of pressures and temperatures down to 0.7 mK (Phys. Rev. Left., 33, 1595; 1974). Their data seem to be consistent with the suggestion by Brinkman, Smith, Osheroff and Blount (Phys. Rev. Lett., 33, 624; 1974) that the B phase of the superfluid is anisotropic and may be expected to exhibit textures somewhat analagous to those of liquid crystals.

AB - In a recent communication from the Low Temperature Laboratory of the Helsinki University of Technology, Ahonen, Haikala, Krusius and Lounasmaa describe their transverse nuclear magnetic resonance experiments on superfluid 3He over a wide range of pressures and temperatures down to 0.7 mK (Phys. Rev. Left., 33, 1595; 1974). Their data seem to be consistent with the suggestion by Brinkman, Smith, Osheroff and Blount (Phys. Rev. Lett., 33, 624; 1974) that the B phase of the superfluid is anisotropic and may be expected to exhibit textures somewhat analagous to those of liquid crystals.

U2 - 10.1038/253590a0

DO - 10.1038/253590a0

M3 - Book/Film/Article review

VL - 253

SP - 590

EP - 591

JO - Nature

JF - Nature

SN - 0028-0836

IS - 5493

ER -