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Effective field theory for He-IV

J. M. Carmona, S. Jimenez, J. Polonyi, A. Tarancon

cond-mat.otherarXiv:cond-mat/0511384

Abstract

We introduce an effective scalar field theory to describe the He-IV phase diagram, which can be considered as a generalization of the XY model which gives the usual lambda-transition. This theory results from a Ginzburg-Landau Hamiltonian with higher order derivatives, which allow to produce transitions between the superfluid, normal liquid and solid phases of He-IV. Mean field and Monte Carlo analyses suggest that this model is able to reproduce the main qualitative features of He-IV phase transitions.

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