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An experiment to detect vacancies and their possible Bose-Einstein condensation in solid4He

✍ Scribed by P. G. Haar; C. M. C. M. Woerkens; M. W. Meisel; G. Frossati


Publisher
Springer US
Year
1992
Tongue
English
Weight
664 KB
Volume
86
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-2291

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✦ Synopsis


Using a capacitive pressure gauge, the pressure of a constant-volume 4Hesample was measured in the temperature range 1.5-120 mK, at pressures of 25.3 bar (on the melting curve) and26.0 bar. A gradual pressure change occurring as a consequence of the ideal gas behavior of vacancies, or a pressure anomaly corresponding to a Bose-Einstein condensation of the vacancies, was not observed. Within the sensitivity of the pressure gaug e (2 Pa), this result sets upper limits to the density of zero-point vacancies.