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Properties of melting 3He: Specific heat, entropy, latent heat, and temperature

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A sequence of experiments has been performed to measure thermal properties of liquid and solid 3He between the temperatures 1 and 25 mK at melting curve densities. A two-phase mixture of 3He sample was self-cooled by the Pomeranchuk method. A heat pulse technique was used, combined with measurements of pressure and volume, to yield separate determinations of liquid and solid properties: the specific heat of liquid 3He in the normal Fermi liquid and superfluid phases; the entropy of solid 3He above and through a nuclear magnetic transition at 1.10 mK; and an absolute thermodynamic temperature scale based on measurement of latent heat of conversion of liquid to solid.

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Support for this work was obtained from the Research Corporation, the NSF through Grant no. DMR 75-15933, and the Materials Science Center of Cornell University, Grant no. GH 33637. Also, the work was supported by travel grants from the NATO Science Fellowship Programme and the Danish Natural Science Research Council.

Work performed while on leave from Phys. Lab. I, H. C. ørsted Institute, Universitetsparken, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Halperin, W.P., Rasmussen, F.B., Archie, C.N. et al. Properties of melting 3He: Specific heat, entropy, latent heat, and temperature. J Low Temp Phys 31, 617–698 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00116046

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