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Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 4709–4712 (1998)

Concentration Dependence of the Effective Mass of 3He Atoms in 3He-4He Mixtures

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E. Krotscheck1,2, M. Saarela3, K. Schörkhuber1, and R. Zillich1
1Institut für Theoretische Physik, Johannes Kepler Universität, A 4040 Linz, Austria
2Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843
3Department of Physical Sciences, Theoretical Physics, University of Oulu, SF-90570 Oulu, Finland

Received 8 October 1997; published in the issue dated 25 May 1998

Recent measurements by Yorozu et al. [S. Yorozu, H. Fukuyama, and H. Ishimoto, Phys. Rev. B 48, 9660 (1993)] as well as by Simons and Mueller [R. Simons and R. M. Mueller, Czech. J. Phys. Suppl. 46, 201 (1996)] have determined the effective mass of 3He atoms in a 3He-4He mixture with great accuracy. We here report theoretical calculations for the dependence of that effective mass on the 3He concentration. Using correlated basis function perturbation theory to infinite order to compute effective interactions in the appropriate channels, we obtain good agreement between theory and experiment.

© 1998 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.4709
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.4709
PACS:
67.60.-g, 67.40.Db, 67.70.+n, 68.15.+e