Superfluid Quantum Criticality in Liquid 3He in Anisotropic Aerogel

Abstract

In the novel superfluid polar phase realized in liquid 3He in highly anisotropic aerogels, a quantum transition to the polar-distorted A (PdA) phase may occur at a low but finite pressure Pc(0). It is shown that a nontrivial quantum dynamics of the critical fluctuation of the PdA order is induced by the presence of both the columnar-like impurity scattering leading to the Anderson's Theorem for the polar phase and the line node of the quasiparticle gap in the state, and that, in contrast to the situation of the normal to the B phase transition in isotropic aerogels, a weakly divergent behavior of the compressibility appears in the quantum critical region close to Pc(0).

arXiv comment9 pages, 4 figures. To appear in Phys.Rev.B

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