Hysteretic behavior in torsional oscillator experiments & de Gennes, Bean and Livingston effect in hcp 4He
Abstract
Recent reports on the absence of supersolid signal in 4He in Vycor as well as reports on effects of the sample elasticity to torsional oscillator (TO) experiments caused people to ask if supersolid may not exist. There are recent activities to check such questions more quantitatively. We revisit our TO study, which was performed on relatively small number of bulk hcp 4He samples, but under quite different conditions as under DC rotation as well as under wide range of AC excitation Vac with extremely high stability. We proposed a transition at Tc = 75(~ 60) mK well below the onset temperature of the anomaly around 500 mK in the same sample. The transition at Tc was detected by three independent methods. Namely, the hysteresis appears below this Tc when AC excitation was changed under a certain sequence. We analyzed the maximum period shift across the hysteretic loop as a function of Vac. This quantity appears abruptly below Tc and surprisingly its T dependence coincides with that of the extra energy dissipation rotational velocity Omega linear slope under DC rotation, also below Tc. We discuss that the maximum is caused by de Gennes, Bean and Livingston effect, which is a quantized vortices effect known for superconductors. The third Tc detection is given by a jump in the log Vac linear dependence of the period shift.
Authors acknowledge support from ISSP, Univ. Tokyo.- Publication:
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APS March Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- March 2014
- Bibcode:
- 2014APS..MART47008K