Physical Review Letters
Observation of dispersion in theJ= 2+ collective modes of B3 by nonlinear acoustic spectroscopy
Antti J. Manninen, Harry Alles, А. В. Бабкин, Jukka P Pekola, Ross H. McKenzie
Abstract
Parametric excitation yields new results, which cannot be obtained by conventional linear spectroscopy, on the collective modes in superfluid $^{3}\mathit{B}$. In our ultrasonic experiments, performed in a chamber with four quartz crystals, we have excited the real squashing (J=${2}^{+}$) modes by two simultaneous sound waves which are mutually either parallel, orthogonal, or antiparallel. Qualitatively these results are in agreement with the theoretical dispersion relation of the J=${2}^{+}$ modes, and quantitatively we have been able to extract the collective-mode velocities from the line splittings in zero magnetic field.