Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Measurements of ^3 He Confined in 98% Porosity Aerogel.

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Session I10 - DFD: $^(3)He,$^(4)He and $^(3)He$-$^(4)He Mixtures
MIXED session, Thursday morning, April 20, 8:00
Room 4, Renaissance Hotel

[I10.09] Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Measurements of ^3 He Confined in 98% Porosity Aerogel.

J.B. Kycia,D.T. Sprague,T.M. Haard,M.R. Rand,P.J. Hamot,Y. Lee,W.P. Halperin (Northwestern University),M.H.W. Chan (Pennsylvania State University)

We report measurements at various pressures of the magnetization and magnetic resonance frequency of ^3 He in 98% porous aerogel using pulsed NMR techniques. Our results provide evidence for superfluidity but with a suppressed transition temperature, T_p, relative to the bulk superfluid temperature, T_c . Above T_p the resonance frequency is constant. Similar to the A-phase, below T_p the resonance frequency is observed to rise continuously with decreasing temperature. T_p is 68 % to 85 % of T_c with the greater suppression occurring at the lower pressures. There are no observable discontinuities in the magnetization or its slope at T=T_p, and so it is likely that the order parameter is an equal spin pairing state. The tipping angle dependence of the resonance frequency is neither A-phase nor B-phase like. The resonance frequency of 3.6 MHz has been studied, and work at other fields is underway.

This work is supported by the National Science Foundation through grants DMR-9314025 and DMR-9311918.

High Resolution Measurement of the ^3 He Normal Fluid Larmor Frequency.

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Session I10 - DFD: $^(3)He,$^(4)He and $^(3)He$-$^(4)He Mixtures
MIXED session, Thursday morning, April 20, 8:00
Room 4, Renaissance Hotel

[I10.09] High Resolution Measurement of the ^3 He Normal Fluid Larmor Frequency.

J.B. Kycia,D.T. Sprague,T.M. Haard,M.R. Rand,P.J. Hamot,Y. Lee,W.P. Halperin (Northwestern University),M.H.W. Chan (Pennsylvania State University),T.M. Haard,D.M. Sprague,J.B. Kycia,M.R. Rand,P.J. Hamot,Y. Lee,W.P. Halperin (Northwestern University)

We have made high resolution magnetic resonance measurements of the ^3 He normal Fermi liquid Larmor frequency. At high temperatures, near the Larmor frequency is temperature independent. At lower temperatures we observe a negative shift from this value that is approximately proportional to the inverse temperature, increasing to a maximum shift of order 1/10 ^6 at the superfluid transition temperature ( \approx 1 mK ). The dependence of this shift on pressure (over the range 0.3 to 28.8 bar) and magnetic field, ( 0.04 and 0.12 T) is discussed. This work is supported by the National Science Foundation through grants DMR-9314025 and DMR-9311918.

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