Stages of homogeneous nucleation in solid isotopic helium mixtures

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Poole, M ^a   Saunders, J ^a   Cowan, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COARSENING; HELIUM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEATION; PHASE SEPARATION;

HOMOGENEOUS NUCLEATION; NUCLEATION SITES; SOLID ISOTOPIC HELIUM MIXTURES; SUPERCRITICAL DROPLETS;

MIXTURES;

EID: 40849096543     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.075301     Document Type: Article

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