Landau Days 2015
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Landau Days 2015
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Trapped Bose-Einstein condensates of magnons in superfluid 3He-B
Date/Time: 12:25 23-Jun-2015
Abstract:
In superfluid 3He-B pumped magnon quasiparticles can be trapped in a
potential created by spatial variation of the magnetic field and of the order parameter. At sufficiently large density, magnons form a Bose-Einstein condensate which can be probed and manipulated using NMR techniques. At temperatures below 0.2Tc the lifetime of such condensates grows to minutes. Magnon BEC has become an important tool to probe superfluid 3He at the lowest temperatures, including dynamics of quantized vortices, instabilities and waves on the superfluid interfaces and thermometry in the microkelvin regime. Our recent observations reveal the decay of magnon condensates via interaction with other quasiparticle types in 3He-B: First, we have found parametric conversion of magnons to pairs of quanta of longitudinal spin waves, which play role of "light" Higgs bosons. Second, an additional decay channel originates from fermions bound to the surface of the topological superfluid. Authors
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