• 文献标题:   Superfluid State of He-4 on Graphane and Graphene-Fluoride: Anisotropic Roton States
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   NAVA M, GALLI DE, COLE MW, REATTO L
  • 作者关键词:   adsorption on graphene derivative, anisotropic superfluid
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   0022-2291
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Milan
  • 被引频次:   14
  • DOI:   10.1007/s10909-012-0770-9
  • 出版年:   2013

▎ 摘  要

We explore the phase behavior of Helium films on two variants of graphene: graphane (graphene coated with H, denoted GH) and graphene-fluoride (GF). A semiempirical interaction with these substrates is used in T=0 K Path Integral Ground State and finite temperature Path Integral Monte Carlo simulations. We predict that He-4 forms anisotropic fluid states at low coverage. This behavior differs qualitatively from that on graphite because of the different surface composition, symmetry and spacing of the adsorption sites. The He-4 ground state on both substrates is thus a self-bound anisotropic superfluid with a superfluid fraction rho (s) /rho lower than 1 due to the corrugation of the adsorption potential. In the case of GF such corrugation is so large that rho (s) /rho=0.6 at T=0 K and the superfluid is essentially restricted to move in a multiconnected space, along the bonds of a honeycomb lattice. We predict a superfluid transition temperature Ta parts per thousand integral 0.25 (1.1) K for He-4 on GF (GH). We have studied the elementary excitation spectrum of He-4 on GF at equilibrium density finding a phonon-maxon-roton dispersion relation that is strongly anisotropic in the roton region. We conclude that these new platforms for adsorption studies offer the possibility of studying novel superfluid phases of quantum condensed matter.