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Progress in low temperature physics. Volume 11 /

The present volume is largely concerned with helium, as the variety of physics encompassed in the thermal, magnetic and hydrodynamic properties of liquid and solid helium is considerable - it is in many ways a model condensed system.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Brewer, D. F. (Douglas Forbes)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : North Holland, 1987.
Colección:Progress in low temperature physics ; v. 11
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover; Progress in Low Temperature Physics, Volume XI; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Contents of previous volumes; Chapter 1. Spin-polarized 3 He- 4He solutions; 1. Introduction; 2. Macroscopic description of polarized solutions; 3. Dilute spin-polarized solutions . Thermodynamics; 4. Transport phenomena and magnetokinetic effects; 5. Transverse spin dynamics and spin waves; 6. 3He superfluidity in 3He?-4He solutions; 7. Other spin-polarized 3He Fermi systems. Concluding remarks; References; Chapter 2. Long mean free paths in quantum fluidr; 1. Limitations of hydrodynamics
  • 2. Fluid slip at boundaries3. Flow at arbitrary Knudsen numbers; 4. More general scattering laws; 5. Comparison with experiment; 6. Conclusion; References; Chapter 3. The surface of helium crystals; 1. Introduction; 2. The morphology of helium crystals; 3. Recent theoretical advances regarding roughening; 4. The growth of helium crystals; 5. Substrate-induced phenomena; 6. Conclusion; Note added in proof; References; Chapter 4. Neutron scattering by 4He and 3He; 1. Introduction; 2. Liquid 4He; 3. Liquid 3He; 4. Concluding remarks and future directions; References
  • Chapter 5. Characteristic features of heavy -electron materials1. Introduction; 2. Typical features of heavy-electron materials; 3. The renormalization of energy scales; 4. Other properties; 5. Superconductivity in heavy-electron materials; 6. Magnetic ordering in heavy-electron materials; 7. Conditions for the formation of the heavy-electron ground state; 8. Concluding remarks; Note added in proof; References; Author Index; Subject Index