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Pressurized 4He in cylindrical and in hexagonal pores
- Publication Year :
- 2007
- Publisher :
- Springer, 2007.
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Abstract
- We give a variational Monte Carlo description at T = 0 K of 4He filling under pressure a porous glass within the shadow wave function technique. We have considered as confining media two different smooth pores, one with a circular cross-section of radius R = 13 A resembling a Gelsil pore, and the other with a hexagonal cross–section of side S = 14 A resembling a FSM-16 pore. In all the studied cases the density profiles show a strong layering of the 4He atoms. As the density is increased, solidification takes place layer by layer, starting from the pore wall. Computing the one-body density matrix we are able to estimate the Bose–Einstein condensate fraction, which is still non–zero even when the whole system is in the solid phase.
- Subjects :
- Density matrix
Materials science
Condensed matter physics
Layer by layer
Radius
Porous glass
Condensed Matter Physics
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Bose-Einstein condensation
shadow
wave-function
porous vycor glass
ground-state
quantum-theory
solid HE-4
helium
superfluidity
adsorption
simulation
Settore FIS/03 - Fisica della Materia
Phase (matter)
General Materials Science
Variational Monte Carlo
Layering
Wave function
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0dee7cac6b6938a432367d938136755f