Superfluidity Without Superflow in Unsaturated Helium Films
- 3 March 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 22 (9) , 383-385
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.22.383
Abstract
It is shown experimentally that the superfluid fraction is continuous and finite at the point at which superflow vanishes in unsaturated helium films. It follows that there is a region of superfluidity without superflow. In addition it is shown that the behavior of the partial molar entropy may account for the disappearance of superflow without requiring that vanish.
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