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Helium-4:The Once and Future Supersolid Michael Ma University of Cincinnati Quantum Solid Quantum Solid PAST A quantum solid may Bose condense and be a supersolid! Andreev-Lifshitz Chester Present Still No Evidence for Infinite Conductivity Bulk EquilBm Supersolid? Pro Phase coherence NCRI does not anneal to 0 No difference between bulk and vycor ?s increases with Xtal quality specific heat anomaly Con no evidence of zero resistance NCRI may anneal to 0 ?s temp dependence He3 impurities effects geometry dependence tiny entropy, ~10-6 kB/He4 Commensurate SS Pro Galli and Reatto (Variational SW) Con Ceperley and Bernu (Ring Exchange) Boninsegni et al (Worm Algorithm) Prokof’ev and Svistunov (“Proof”) Incommensurate SS Change in Local Density Profile Pressure Dependence of T=0 Superfluid Density Finite T Superfluid Density He3 Impurities Future Thank You! filling “KE” 1 x MI Commensurate SS Incomm SS Incomm. SS Commensurate vs. Incommensurate Supersolid If incommensurate = SS (Galli and Reatto) Anderson-Brinkman-Huse T7 correction to CV = ?n ~ T4 Commensurate solid metastable But T7 can be due to anharmonic effect local distortion of lattice and density vacancy hopping given by (heavy) polaron mass attraction between vacancies (Troyer) With finite vacancy density, distortion can be static and uniform vacancies have light mass Bose condensation energy can overcome activation energy First order transition At T=0, nv = 0 in normal solid finite in supersolid Normal-Supersolid transition accompanied by Commensurate-incommensurate transition Change in local density profile Dai Xi, FCZ, MM; HuaiBin Zhuang ?(r) ?(r) Normal Solid Supersolid Qualitative Agreement with Penn State Expts Finite T data suggests transiton smeared by disorder specific heat shows no critical behavior Two possibilities for pure system: second order transition not in X-Y universality class first