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Experimental set-up. Quartz-glass sample container cylinder is filled partially with superfluid 3He-B, leaving a free surface of the superfluid approximately 3 mm above the centre of the surrounding coil system. The space above the free surface is vacuum due to the vanishing vapor pressure of 3He at sub-millikelvin temperatures. Magnons can be trapped in this configuration in two separate locations, in the bulk (colored blue) and touching the free surface (colored red). Transverse NMR coils are used both for RF pumping of magnons into the BECs, and for recording the induced signal from the coherently precessing magnetization M (light yellow arrow). The amplitude of the recorded signal is proportional to βM, the tipping angle of M, and its frequency corresponds to the precession frequency of the condensate. The condensates are trapped by the combined effect of the distribution of the orbital anisotropy axis of the superfluid (green arrows) via spin-orbit coupling, and a minimum of the external magnetic field created using a pinch coil (magenta wire loop). The external field H is oriented along the z axis of the sample container. Image credit: Autti et al, doi: 10.1038/s41563-020-0780-y.

Physicists Observe Quantum Time Crystals Interacting with Each Other

Aug 18, 2020 by News Staff

An international team of physicists has studied the controlled interaction of two spatially separated time crystals. Experimental set-up. Quartz-glass...