Dr Igor Todoshchenko gives a webinar on 'Mobile solid 3He on carbon nanotube promoted by topological frustration' at 4pm UK time
Dr Igor Todoshchenko (Aalto University) gives a webinar on “Mobile solid 3He on carbon nanotube promoted by topological frustration” at 4pm UK time.
Low dimensional fermionic quantum systems are exceptionally interesting because they reveal distinctive physical phenomena, including among others, topologically protected excitations, edge states, frustration, and fractionalization. Two-dimensional 3He has indeed shown a remarkable variety of phases of matter including the unusual quantum spin liquid. Our aim was to lower the dimension of the 3He system even more by confining it on a suspended carbon nanotube. We demonstrate that 3He on a nanotube merges both fermionic and bosonic phenomena, with a quantum phase transition between solid 1/3 phase and a fluid-like solid. The bosonic dimer fluid-like solid contains topology-induced vacancies which are delocalized owing to large zero-point motion. We thus observe a quantum phase transition from fermionic 3He crystal in to a bosonic one in quasi-1D geometry.