Administration of EMP-related Publications
year | 2020 |
author(s) | S. Autti, A.M. Guénault, R.P. Haley, A. Jennings, G.R. Pickett, R. Schanen, A.A. Soldatov, V. Tsepelin, J. Vonka, D.E. Zmeev |
title | Effect of the boundary condition on Kapitza resistance between superfluid 3He-B and sintered metal |
document type | Paper |
source | Phys. Rev. B 102, 064508 (2020) |
doi | 10.1103/PhysRevB.102.064508 |
arxiv | http://arxiv.org/abs/2005.05838 |
EMP/Horizon2020 | This publication includes a EMP/Horizon2020 acknowledgement. |
abstract | Understanding the temperature dependence of thermal boundary resistance, or Kapitza resistance, between liquid helium and sintered metal has posed a problem in low temperature physics for decades. In the ballistic regime of superfluid 3He-B, we find the Kapitza resistance can be described via scattering of thermal excitations (quasiparticles) with a macroscopic geometric area, rather than the sintered metal's microscopic area. We estimate that a quasiparticle needs on the order of 1000 collisions to successfully thermalise with the sinter. Finally, we find that the Kapitza resistance is approximately doubled with the addition of two mono-layers of solid 4He on the sinter surface, which we attribute to an extra magnetic channel of heat transfer being closed as the non-magnetic solid 4He replaces the magnetic solid 3He. |