Quantum degeneracy in mesoscopic matter : Casimir effect and Bose-Einstein condensation
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2024-06-01
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Physical Review B, Volume 109, issue 22, pp. 1-9
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The ground-state phonon pressure is an analog to the famous Casimir pressure of vacuum produced by zero-point photons. The acoustic Casimir forces are, however, many orders of magnitude weaker than the electromagnetic Casimir forces, as the typical speed of sound is 100 000 times smaller than the speed of light. Because of its weakness, zero-point acoustic Casimir pressure was never observed, although the pressure of artificially introduced sound noise on a narrow aperture has been reported. However, the magnitude of Casimir pressure increases as 1/L3 with the decrease of the sample size L, and reaches piconewtons in the submicron scales. We demonstrate and measure the acoustic Casimir pressure induced by zero-point phonons in solid helium adsorbed on a carbon nanotube. We have also observed Casimir-like "pushing out"thermal phonons with the decreasing temperature or the length. We also show that all thermodynamic quantities are size dependent, and therefore in the mesoscopic range L≲h c/(kBT) quadruple points are possible on the phase diagram where four different phases coexist. Due to the smallness of solid helium sample, temperature of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of vacancies is relatively high, 10-100mK. This allowed us to experimentally discover the BEC in a system of zero-point vacancies, predicted more than 50 years ago.Description
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Todoshchenko, I, Kamada, M, Kaikkonen, J P, Liao, Y, Savin, A, Kauppinen, E, Sergeicheva, E & Hakonen, P J 2024, ' Quantum degeneracy in mesoscopic matter : Casimir effect and Bose-Einstein condensation ', Physical Review B, vol. 109, no. 22, 224519, pp. 1-9 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.109.224519