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Finite size Berezinski-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition at grain boundaries in solid ⁴He and role of ³He impurities

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arxiv 0806.1114 v2 pith:YZ7ROPFL submitted 2008-06-06 cond-mat.other

Finite size Berezinski-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition at grain boundaries in solid ⁴He and role of ³He impurities

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We analyze the complex phenomenology of the Non-Classical Rotational Inertia (NCRI) observed at low temperature in solid $^4$He within the context of a two dimensional Berezinski-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in a premelted $^4$He film at the grain boundaries. We show that both the temperature and $^3$He doping dependence of the NCRI fraction (NCRIF) can be ascribed to finite size effects induced by the finite grain size. We give an estimate of the average size of the grains which we argue to be limited by the isotopic $^3$He impurities and we provide a simple power-law relation between the NCRIF and the $^3$He concentration.

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