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Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 2010 Volume 91, Issue 11, Pages 669–675 (Mi jetpl738)

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Orbital glass and spin glass states of $^3$He-A in aerogel

V. V. Dmitrieva, D. A. Krasnikhina, N. Muldersb, A. A. Senina, G. E. Volovikcd, A. N. Yudina

a P. L. Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems RAS
b Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware
c L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences
d Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology

Abstract: Glass states of superfluid A-like phase of $^3$He in aerogel induced by random orientations of aerogel strands are investigated theoretically and experimentally. In anisotropic aerogel with stretching deformation two glass phases are observed. Both phases represent the anisotropic glass of the orbital ferromagnetic vector $\hat {\mathbf l}$ – the orbital glass (OG). The phases differ by the spin structure: the spin nematic vector $\hat {\mathbf d}$ can be either in the ordered spin nematic (SN) state or in the disordered spin-glass (SG) state. The first phase (OG-SN) is formed under conventional cooling from normal $^3$He. The second phase (OG-SG) is metastable, being obtained by cooling through the superfluid transition temperature, when large enough resonant continuous radio-frequency excitation is applied. NMR signature of different phases allows us to measure the parameter of the global anisotropy of the orbital glass induced by deformation.

Received: 29.04.2010

Language: English


 English version:
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Letters, 2010, 91:11, 599–606

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