Excitations of metastable superfluid 4He at pressures up to 40 bars.
Neutron scattering measurements of the fundamental excitations of liquid 4He confined in 44 A pore diameter gelsil glass at pressures up to 40 bars in the wave vector range 0.4<Q<2.3 A(-1) are reported. Above 25.3 bars and at low temperature (T=0.4 K) the characteristic phonon-roton mode of superfluid 4He is no longer observed as a well-defined mode in the phonon-maxon region (0.4<Q<1.6 A(-1)). Modes at wave vectors Q>1.6 A(-1), especially the rotons, are observed up to complete solidification of all the liquid at a pressure of approximately 40 bars where the roton vanishes. At and above a pressure of 35.1 bars, Bragg peaks are observed, indicating coexistence of liquid and solid in the pores at pressures 35 less than or approximately equal P less than or approximately equal 40 bars.
Pearce
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Institut Laue-Langevin, BP 156, 38042 Grenoble, France.
Bossy
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Schober
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Glyde
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Daughton
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Mulders
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