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Recent Publications

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• "Finite-size Scaling of ⁴He at the Superfluid Transition"
  Francis M. Gasparini, Mark O. Kimball, Kevin P. Mooney, and Manuel Diaz-Avila
  Accepted for publication in Reviews of Modern Physics (2008)
  PDF of paper (3.8M)

• "Measurements Of The Superfluid Fraction Of ⁴He In 9.4 nm Channels, 19 micron Wide And 2000 micron Long"
  Manuel Diaz-Avila, Mark O. Kimball and Francis M. Gasparini
  24^th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics (LT24)
  AIP Conference Proceedings 850 127-128 (2006)
  PDF of paper (209k)

• "Determination Of The Bulk Helium Critical Exponents Using Confined Helium"
  Mark O. Kimball, Manuel Diaz-Avila, and Francis M. Gasparini
  24^th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics (LT24)
  AIP Conference Proceedings 850 123-124 (2006)
  PDF of paper (200k)

• "Specific Heat of Helium in (2 micron)³ Boxes, Coupled or Uncoupled?"
  Kevin P. Mooney, Mark O. Kimball and Francis M. Gasparini
  24^th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics (LT24)
  AIP Conference Proceedings 850 129-130 (2006)
  PDF of paper (47k)

• "Universality and Finite-Size Scaling of the Specific Heat of ³He-⁴He Mixtures"
  Mark O. Kimball and Francis M. Gasparini
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 165701 (2005)
  PDF of paper (209k)

• "Behavior of ⁴He Near Tlambda in Films of Infinite and Finite Lateral Extent"
  Manuel Diaz-Avila, Francis M. Gasparini, and Mark O. Kimball,
  J. Low Temp. Phys. 134 Nos. 1/2, 613-618 (2004)
  PDF of paper (148k)

• "Scaling, Dimensionality Crossover, Surface and Edge Specific Heats in Confined ⁴He"
  Francis M. Gasparini, Manuel Diaz-Avila, Mark O. Kimball, and Kevin P. Mooney
  J. Low Temp. Phys. 134 Nos. 1/2, 585-594 (2004)
  PDF of paper (148k)

• "Specific Heat of ⁴He Confined in Channels of 1 um Square Cross-Section"
  Kevin P. Mooney, Mark O. Kimball, and Francis M. Gasparini
  J. Low Temp. Phys. 134 Nos. 1/2, 607-612 (2004)
  PDF of paper (148k)

• "Three-Dimensional Critical Behavior with 2D, 1D, and 0D Dimensionality Crossover: Surface and Edge Specific Heats"
  Mark O. Kimball, Kevin P. Mooney, and Francis M. Gasparini
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 115301 (2004)
  PDF of paper (148k)

• "Heat capacity of mixtures of ³He-⁴He confined to coupled 1um boxes."
  Mark O. Kimball and F. M. Gasparini
  Physica B 329-333 (2003) 162
  PDF of paper (148k)

• "Surprising behavior of the superfluid fraction for ⁴He and ³He-⁴He mixtures in 18.5 nm channels."
  Mark O. Kimball, Manuel Diaz-Avila, and F. M. Gasparini
  Physica B 329-333 (2003) 248
  PDF of paper (133k)

• "⁴He confined to 1um³ boxes, 0D crossover, surface and edge effects."
  Mark O. Kimball, Manuel Diaz-Avila, and F. M. Gasparini
  Physica B 329-333, (2003) 286
  PDF of paper (127k)

• "Critical Behavior and Scaling of Confined ³He-⁴He Mixtures"
  Mark O. Kimball and F. M. Gasparini
  J. Low Temp. Phys. 126, Nos. 1/2, 103-108 (2002)
  PDF of paper (359k)

• "Van der Waals effects at the superfluid transition of confined ⁴He"
  K. P. Mooney and F. M. Gasparini
  J. Low Temp. Phys. 126, Nos. 1/2, 247-253 (2002)
  PDF of paper (141k)

• "The Superfluid Transition of ⁴He, a Test Case for Finite-Size Scaling at a Second Order Phase Transition"
  F. M. Gasparini, M. O. Kimball, and K. P. Mooney
  J. Phys. Condens. Matter 13, 4871 (2001)

• "Superfluid Fraction of ³He - ⁴He Mixtures Confined at 0.0483 um between Silicon Wafers"
  M. O. Kimball and F. M. Gasparini
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1558 (2001)
  PDF of paper (291k)

• "Specific Heat Near the Superfluid Transition of a 0.9869 micron ⁴He Film."
  M. O. Kimball, S. Mehta, and F. M. Gasparini
  J. Low Temp. Phys. Vol 121, Nos. 1/2, 29 (2000).
  PDF of paper (2607k)

• "Specific Heat of ⁴He Confined to 9869A Planar Geometry."
  M. O. Kimball and F. M. Gasparini
  Physica B (2000) 284-288 47-48
  PDF of paper (123k)
  PS of paper (407k)

• "Superfluid Density of Confined ³He-⁴He Using Adiabatic Fountain Resonance"
  F. M. Gasparini and M. O. Kimball
  Physica B 284-288 (2000) 317-318
  PDF of paper (189k)

• "Superfluid Transition of ⁴He for Two-Dimensional Crossover, Heat Capacity, and Finite Size Scaling"
  S. Mehta, M. O. Kimball and F. M. Gasparini
  J. Low Temp. Phys. Vol. 114, Nos. 5/6, 467 (1999).

• "⁴He Confined in 0.0483 um Planar Geometry, Specific Heat and Scaling Near Tlambda"
  S. Mehta, M. O. Kimball and F. M. Gasparini
  J. Low Temp. Phys. Vol. 113, Nos. 3/4, 435 (1998).

• "Specific Heat and Scaling of ⁴He Confined in a Planar Geometry"
  S. Mehta and F. M. Gasparini
  Phys. Rev. Lett. Vol. 78, Nos. 13, 2596 (1997).
  PDF of paper (179k)

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• Specific Heat data as published in Mehta, Kimball, and Gasparini (99) and Kimball, Mehta, and Gasparini (00). This is a text file which needs to be read by a program, such as OpenOffice Calc or Microsoft Excel, that understands comma delimited data. Holding the shift key while you select the file will download it to your local machine.

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Last Updated: Monday, 21-Apr-2008 11:33:06 EDT by MOK