Dry demagnetization cryostat for sub-millikelvin helium experiments: Refrigeration and thermometry
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2014
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en
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085106/1-6
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Review of Scientific Instruments, Volume 85, Issue 8
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We demonstrate successful “dry” refrigeration of quantum fluids down to T = 0.16 mK by using copper nuclear demagnetization stage that is pre-cooled by a pulse-tube-based dilution refrigerator. This type of refrigeration delivers a flexible and simple sub-mK solution to a variety of needs including experiments with superfluid 3He. Our central design principle was to eliminate relative vibrations between the high-field magnet and the nuclear refrigeration stage, which resulted in the minimum heat leak of Q = 4.4 nW obtained in field of 35 mT. For thermometry, we employed a quartz tuning fork immersed into liquid 3He. We show that the fork oscillator can be considered as self-calibrating in superfluid 3He at the crossover point from hydrodynamic into ballistic quasiparticle regime.Description
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helium, demagnetization, copper, refrigerators, thermometers
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Todoshchenko, I. & Kaikkonen, J.-P. & Blaauwgeers, R. & Hakonen, Pertti J. & Savin, A. 2014. Dry demagnetization cryostat for sub-millikelvin helium experiments: Refrigeration and thermometry. Review of Scientific Instruments. Volume 85, Issue 8. 085106/1-6. ISSN 0034-6748 (printed). DOI: 10.1063/1.4891619