PREDICTION OF REENTRANT WETTING OF HE-3-HE-4 MIXTURES ON CESIUM

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PETTERSEN, MS [1 ]
SAAM, WF [1 ]
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[1] OHIO STATE UNIV,DEPT PHYS,COLUMBUS,OH 43210
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10.1007/BF00681997
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O59 [应用物理学];
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We examine the effect of He-3 impurities on the wetting behavior of He-4 on cesium, predicting a phase diagram which includes reentrant wetting transitions. This phase diagram is shown to be very sensitive to effects such as a theoretically predicted bound state of He-3 at the liquid-cesium interface, and the contact angle may be sensitive to interesting temperature dependences of the helium-cesium surface tension resulting from surface rotons or Rayleigh waves.
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