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Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 864–867 (1994)

High-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance of superfluid 3B

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J. B. Kycia, T. M. Haard, M. R. Rand, H. H. Hensley, G. F. Moores, Y. Lee, P. J. Hamot, D. T. Sprague, and W. P. Halperin
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208

E. V. Thuneberg
Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, 02150 Espoo, Finland

Received 4 October 1993; published in the issue dated 7 February 1994

High-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance measurements of bulk superfluid 3B have been performed at temperatures above 0.5 mK and at pressures from 0.3 to 21.7 bars. We have found that the resonance frequency is shifted from the Larmor frequency of the normal fluid. According to the theory of Greaves the shift at the superfluid transition determines a specific combination, β345, of the 5 fourth-order coefficients of the order parameter invariants used in the Ginzburg-Landau description of superfluid 3He. We found that β345 approaches the weak coupling limit at low pressure, and decreases at higher pressures qualitatively consistent with the theory of Sauls and Serene but in disagreement with the results of Tang et al.

© 1994 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.72.864
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.72.864
PACS:
67.57.Bc, 76.60.Jx