Lambda point in the He-4-Vycor System: A test of hyperuniversality

Citation
Gm. Zassenhaus et Jd. Reppy, Lambda point in the He-4-Vycor System: A test of hyperuniversality, PHYS REV L, 83(23), 1999, pp. 4800-4803
Citations number
26
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
ISSN journal
00319007 → ACNP
Volume
83
Issue
23
Year of publication
1999
Pages
4800 - 4803
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(199912)83:23<4800:LPITHS>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
We have performed a high resolution specific heat measurement on He-4 compl etely filling the pores of Vycor glass. Within 10 mK of the superfluid tran sition we observe a peak in the heat capacity which is only 0.02% the size of the background. The peak is fitted with a rounded version of the "logari thmic singularity" observed in bulk He-4. This adds strong support to the s uggestion that disorder imposed by the Vycor is irrelevant to the 3DXY supe rfluid phase transition. The size of the peak, while in agreement with that found in other experiments in dilute superfluid 4He, is considerably large r than that predicted by the theory of hyperuniversality.