HEAT-CAPACITY OF ATOMICALLY LAYERED HE-3-HE-4 MIXTURE FILMS

Citation
M. Dann et al., HEAT-CAPACITY OF ATOMICALLY LAYERED HE-3-HE-4 MIXTURE FILMS, Journal of low temperature physics, 110(1-2), 1998, pp. 627-633
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Applied
ISSN journal
00222291
Volume
110
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
627 - 633
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-2291(1998)110:1-2<627:HOALHM>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
We report preliminary results of the first heat capacity measurements on atomically layered He-3-He-4 mixture films adsorbed on the surface of graphite. The He-4 film consists of two solid and two superfluid at omic layers. The heat capacity has been investigated over the range 1 - 70mK as a function of the surface density of He-3 atoms added to the film. At cover ages n(3) < 4 nm(-2), the He-3 forms a uniform two dim ensional Fermi system. The coverage dependence of the linear coefficie nt of the heat capacity, gamma, allows a determination of the hydrodyn amic effective mass and F-1(s). At higher coverages a step-like increa se in gamma is observed, interpreted as the formation of a second two dimensional Fermi system.