Nanocluster magnetic gel in superfluid He-II
Abstract
The first results of the study of the structure of an impurity oxygen gel in superfluid He-II and in normal liquid helium have been obtained by the small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) method with cold neutrons. The angular dependence of the neutron scattering intensity I( q) indicates that the characteristic sizes of nanocluster aggregates forming a dispersive system (backbone) of an oxygen gel sample are distributed from 1 to ≈100 nm. According to the estimates made, if the working cell with superfluid helium cooled below 1.8 K is placed in a magnetic field of H ≥ 200 G, the magnetic structure of the nanocluster sample of oxygen gel, which is formed at the condensation of the flow of gaseous 4He with the impurity of O2 vapor on the surface of He-II, will be close to ferromagnetic.
- Publication:
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Soviet Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Letters
- Pub Date:
- March 2014
- DOI:
- 10.1134/S0021364014010044
- Bibcode:
- 2014JETPL..99...32E