Overview on solid 4He and the issue of supersolidity

M. H.W. Chan; R. B. Hallock; L. Reatto

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Overview on solid ⁴He and the issue of supersolidity

M. H.W. Chan, R. B. Hallock, L. Reatto

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Here we provide an overview of the status of the field of solid ⁴He with a focus on the recent theoretical and experimental activities stimulated by the 2004 experiments of Kim and Chan. The overview attempts to place the experimental and theoretical work in context, to respect the historical flow of the field and discuss our present understanding of the question of supersolidity in ⁴He. The possibility of supersolidity in cold atoms and in other systems is also addressed. Special issues of the Journal of Low Temperature Physics (168(3/4), 2012; 169(3/4), 2012), in addition to this issue, have been devoted to this subject and this overview is meant to accompany those issues of the journal.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	317-363
Number of pages	47
Journal	Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Volume	172
Issue number	5-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-013-0882-x
State	Published - Sep 2013

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
General Materials Science
Condensed Matter Physics

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