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Branch conversion at surfaces of superfluid3He

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Zeitschrift für Physik B Condensed Matter

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We study the reflection of wave packets of quasiparticles from surfaces of a superfluid Fermi liquid. The reflection process is accompanied by changes in the internal structure of the wave packet. One finds particle-hole conversion (Andreev reflection), and a changed magnetization of the wave packet. The latter effect is a special consequence of triplet pairing and is related to the spontaneously broken spin-orbit symmetry. A particularly striking example is a non-magnetic wave packet that is split by the surface into two magnetic ones moving in different directions.

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  1. Physikalisches Institut der Universität Bayreuth, Postfach 3008, D-8580, Bayreuth, Germany

    G. Kieselmann & D. Rainer

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Kieselmann, G., Rainer, D. Branch conversion at surfaces of superfluid3He. Z. Physik B - Condensed Matter 52, 267–275 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01307395

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