Abstract
The results of a calculation of transport properties of the A phase of superfluid 3He are reported. The temperature dependence of the normal fluid density, viscosity, thermal conductivity, and nuclear spin relaxation time are given.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 143-144 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Physics Letters A |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 25 1975 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:fd~isjnmO cos’70 f dE(an°/8E)— (TI/~)m+2 ~ sinO * Supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. GH-4 151 2 and by the Brown University Materials Re-search Program supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant GH-33631. ~ The temperature dependence of these components was first found by Saslow \[5\]A. careful calculation gives the prefactors in eqs. (2) and (3) which only differ from Saslow’s estimatesby factors of 2 and 8/3 respectively. * Our method ofdealing with the angular dependence of the collision integral breaks down at extremelylow temperatures (T/Tc ~ Tc/TF), when both P2 and p’ 1 can vary independently in a shell of width kT near the Fermi surface, giving rise to an extra factor of ~‘2~After completion of this work we received a communication from Combescot in which this behaviour at very low Tis found.