Administration of EMP-related Publications
year | 2013 |
author(s) | Yager, B., NyƩki, J., Casey, A., Cowan, B. P., Lusher, C. P. and Saunders, J. , |
title | NMR Signature of One-Dimensional Behaviour of 3He in Nanopores |
document type | Paper |
source | Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 215303 (2013) |
doi | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.215303 |
EMP/Horizon2020 | This publication does not include a EMP/Horizon2020 acknowledgement. |
abstract | We have performed thermodynamic and NMR relaxation time measurements of He-3 adsorbed in the pores of the mesoporous molecular sieve MCM-41 at temperatures down to 1.7 K and at a range of frequencies up to 240 kHz. The MCM-41 substrate comprises a uniform array of quasi-1D straight pores with a diameter of 2.3 nm. We preplated the pores with a monolayer of He-4 to achieve an effective diameter of 1.6 nm at low temperatures. We made NMR measurements as a function of line density and frequency to investigate the spin dynamics and the effect of dimensionality. We observed T-1 proportional to omega(1/2), which is characteristic of one-dimensional diffusion. At these temperatures this arises from a classical size effect in the narrow pores. Our results demonstrate the possibility to study the spin dynamics of a 1D Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid at lower temperatures, where the He-3 liquid will constitute a quantum 1D system. |