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Mark O. Kimball

Office: 139 Fronczak Hall
(716) 645-2017 x122
Lab: 139 Fronczak Hall
(716) 645-2017 x132
Fax: (716) 645-2507
email: mok2@enthalpy.physics.buffalo.edu

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Ph.D in Physics
(University at Buffalo, 2005)

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Curriculum Vitae: PDF of CV (63k)

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Current Work

• Measuring the specific heat of weakly coupled boxes of helium
• Testing the idea of universality of the superfluid transition using confined mixtures of helium

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Select Publications

• "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)
• Determination of the Bulk Helium Critical Exponents Using Confined Helium
  Mark O. Kimball and Francis M. Gasparini
  To appear in the conference proceedings of the LT24, Orlando Florida (2005)
  PDF of paper (200k)
• "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)
• "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)

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