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Nucleation in Dilute 3He-4He Liquid Mixtures at Low Temperatures

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We present a study of phase separation from supersaturated 3 He- 4 He liquid mixtures at low temperatures addressing both the degree of critical supersaturation Δxcr and the thermal-to-quantum crossover temperature T* for the nucleation process. Two different nucleation seeds are investigated, namely 3 He droplets and 4 He vortex lines with cores filled with 3 He. We have found that the experimental T* is reproduced when we consider that nucleation proceeds from 3 He droplets, whereas Δxcr is reproduced when we consider 4 He vortex lines filled with 3 He. However, neither nucleation configuration is able to simultaneously reproduce the current experimental information on Δxcr and T*.

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    Present address: Departament d'Estructura i Constituents de la Matèria, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona, E-08028, Barcelona, Spain

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  1. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento, and Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, 38050, Povo, Italy

    M. Barranco & M. Guilleumas

  2. Departamento de Física, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1428, Buenos Aires, Argentine

    D. M. Jezek

  3. Division de Physique Théorique, Institut de Physique Nucléaire, 91406, Orsay, France

    R. J. Lombard

  4. Institut de Física Corpuscular, CSIC, 46100, Burjassot, Spain

    J. Navarro

  5. Departament ECM, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028, Barcelona, Spain

    M. Pi

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Barranco, M., Guilleumas, M., Jezek, D.M. et al. Nucleation in Dilute 3He-4He Liquid Mixtures at Low Temperatures. Journal of Low Temperature Physics 117, 81–100 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021813922675

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