Xiang Guan, Jie Fan, Yong Bo Bian, Zhi Gang Cheng, Zhong Qing Ji
{"title":"Development and Experimental Testing of a Differential Thermal Expansion Type Gas-Gap Heat Switch for Dilution Refrigerators","authors":"Xiang Guan, Jie Fan, Yong Bo Bian, Zhi Gang Cheng, Zhong Qing Ji","doi":"10.1007/s10909-024-03243-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10909-024-03243-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The gas-gap heat switch, with its stability and reliability, high switching ratio, and a design that is simple, flexible, and easily scalable, has become the preferred option for efficient pre-cooling in various low-temperature devices such as dilution refrigerators. We have successfully developed a differential thermal expansion type of gas-gap heat switch. This paper details its basic principles, fabrication process, performance testing, and preliminary application in dilution refrigerator system. The typical thermal conductivity of the gas-gap heat switch in the temperature range of 4–30 K has been experimentally measured in both ON and OFF states, and the results are generally consistent with the calculated data. Tests in a dilution refrigerator with a cooling power of approximately 400 μW at 100 mK showed that the developed gas-gap heat switch assembly could perform its functions of thermal connection and disconnection properly and reduce the temperature of the still cold plate to about 7 K within roughly 24 h, significantly improving the original cooling time. Additionally, its heat leakage in the millikelvin temperature range does not affect the attainment of temperatures around 10 mK. Finally, combining the calculated results, we quantitatively analyzed the impact and feasible solutions for the performance improvement of this type of gas-gap heat switch. The research work presented in this paper is of reference value for efficient pre-cooling in dilution refrigerators and other low-temperature equipment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":641,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Low Temperature Physics","volume":"218 3-4","pages":"193 - 212"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143362182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
W. T. Kim, S. C. Kim, B. Sharma, Y. D. Kim, Y. H. Kim, M. H. Lee
{"title":"A Study of Event Position Dependence for the AMoRE-II R&D detectors with (hbox {Li}_{2}hbox {MoO}_{4}) Crystal Absorbers","authors":"W. T. Kim, S. C. Kim, B. Sharma, Y. D. Kim, Y. H. Kim, M. H. Lee","doi":"10.1007/s10909-024-03246-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10909-024-03246-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The AMoRE collaboration conducts experiments to search for the neutrinoless double beta decay of <span>(^{100})</span>Mo using massive <span>(hbox {Li}_{2}hbox {MoO}_{4})</span> (LMO) crystals in a cryogenic calorimetric detection with metallic magnetic calorimeters (MMCs). The detector module incorporates a light detector with Si or Ge wafers, enabling the simultaneous detection of scintillation light. The forthcoming phase (AMoRE-II) of the experiment will include 6 cm (diameter) <span>(times)</span> 6 cm (height) LMO cylindrical crystals, and this has been chosen to reduce the number of crystals and sensors. Additionally, these crystals will have diffusive surfaces rather than polished ones, which helps to reduce the crystal preparation time. The phonon signal of crystals with diffusive surfaces is slower than that of polished crystals. However, due to the mitigated position dependence, diffusive crystals exhibit better discrimination between <span>(alpha)</span> and <span>(beta)</span>/<span>(gamma)</span> signals by pulse shape analysis. We also found that muon events show two bands in the rise time of the large LMO crystal with polished surface, indicating the muon passage at the edge of the crystal, and the band structure is significantly mitigated in the crystals with the diffusive surfaces. To study the position dependence in the crystal absorber further, we irradiated some R&D detectors with localized <span>(alpha)</span> sources. This paper discusses the particle identification and position dependence of <span>(gamma)</span>, <span>(alpha)</span>, and muon events for the large AMoRE-II type detectors based on the pulse shape analysis.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":641,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Low Temperature Physics","volume":"218 Part 5","pages":"83 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142994896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ken Obara, Kuwahira Kento, Satsuki Yoshisaka, Hideo Yano
{"title":"Quantum Turbulence Triggered by Counterflow in a Connecting Tube","authors":"Ken Obara, Kuwahira Kento, Satsuki Yoshisaka, Hideo Yano","doi":"10.1007/s10909-024-03237-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10909-024-03237-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>If we confine superfluid helium in two bulk chambers, named A and B, connected by a tube, it is known that heat injected into chamber A will force the normal-fluid component to flow from chamber A to B and the superfluid component to flow in the opposite direction. We also know that quantum turbulence can be generated by this thermal counterflow when it exceeds critical values. We measured the vortex line density by the second sound attenuation in chambers A and B. The results showed that the heater power required for the turbulence transition was lower in chamber B than in chamber A, even though the superfluid was flowing toward chamber A. This asymmetry suggests that the mechanisms for generating turbulence in each chamber are different. In chamber A, the quantum turbulence was generated by the thermal counterflow converging toward the tube near the inlet of the tube. In chamber B, in contrast, it was generated while simultaneously being transported by the counterflow jet flowing out of the tube.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":641,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Low Temperature Physics","volume":"218 3-4","pages":"136 - 145"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143361961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spin-Mixing Dynamics in Helicoidal Spin-Orbit-Coupled Bose–Einstein Condensates","authors":"Golam Ali Sekh","doi":"10.1007/s10909-024-03244-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10909-024-03244-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We consider Bose–Einstein condensates with helicoidal spin-orbit coupling and study spin-mixing properties of a pseudo-spin 1/2 system through fixed point analysis. At the equilibrium condition, strength of the helicoidal gauge potential plays a significant role to create initial spin imbalance in the two-level system. The spin flipping between the two states occurs with time in the non-equilibrium condition. We see that the changes of spin imbalance with time between the two states execute periodic or quasi-periodic patterns. Amplitude and frequency of the oscillation dynamics depend sensitively on the helicoidal spin-orbit coupling and atomic interaction. We show that spin-mixing dynamics lead to various types of phase-space trajectories with the change of initial spin imbalance and helicoidal gauge potential.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":641,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Low Temperature Physics","volume":"218 3-4","pages":"213 - 223"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143361962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jong-Ju Ri, Myong-Chol Ko, Su-Ryon Ri, Nam-Chol Kim, Ju-Song Ryom, Jong-Chol Ri, Luxia Wang
{"title":"Directional Control of Single-Photon Routing in Asymmetric Quantum Beam Splitter Based on the Additional Quantum Dot","authors":"Jong-Ju Ri, Myong-Chol Ko, Su-Ryon Ri, Nam-Chol Kim, Ju-Song Ryom, Jong-Chol Ri, Luxia Wang","doi":"10.1007/s10909-024-03245-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10909-024-03245-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We propose a novel scheme of a directional quantum splitter using two two-level quantum dots (QDs), infinite and semi-infinite plasmonic waveguides, and theoretically illustrate the directional controllable routing properties, such as reflection and transfer spectra, in proposed model via real space approach when single photons are of entrance into the semi-infinite waveguide. We consider the reflection and transfer properties on controlling the impact of several parameters, such as inter-particle distance, coupling strength, detuning and so on. The characteristics of our investigation is that when the frequency of the incoming single photon are nearly similar to one of eigenfrequencies of an additional QD, our proposed the system acts as a directional quantum splitter with a high transfer ratio toward the specific path. That is, the incident single photons could be come out of only one side of infinite waveguide with the transfer rate of over 0.5 because the additional QD absorbs the energy of single photons through the coherent interaction. These properties could be unlocked new opportunities to realize the quantum communication networks and quantum computation systems based on practical single-photon switch or quantum logic gates.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":641,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Low Temperature Physics","volume":"218 3-4","pages":"224 - 238"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143361963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aashrita Mangu, Benjamin Westbrook, Shawn Beckman, Lance Corbett, Kevin T. Crowley, Daniel Dutcher, Bradley R. Johnson, Adrian T. Lee, Varun Kabra, Bhoomija Prasad, Suzanne T. Staggs, Aritoki Suzuki, Yuhan Wang, Kaiwen Zheng
{"title":"The Simons Observatory: Design, Optimization, and Performance of Low-Frequency Detectors","authors":"Aashrita Mangu, Benjamin Westbrook, Shawn Beckman, Lance Corbett, Kevin T. Crowley, Daniel Dutcher, Bradley R. Johnson, Adrian T. Lee, Varun Kabra, Bhoomija Prasad, Suzanne T. Staggs, Aritoki Suzuki, Yuhan Wang, Kaiwen Zheng","doi":"10.1007/s10909-024-03234-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10909-024-03234-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment located in the Atacama Desert in Chile that will make precise temperature and polarization measurements over six spectral bands ranging from 27 to 285 GHz. Three small aperture telescopes (SATs) and one large aperture telescope (LAT) will house <span>(sim)</span>60,000 detectors and cover angular scales between one arcminute and tens of degrees. We present the performance of the dichroic, low-frequency (LF) lenslet-coupled sinuous antenna transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometer arrays with bands centered at 27 and 39 GHz. The LF focal plane will primarily characterize Galactic synchrotron emission as a critical part of foreground subtraction from CMB data. We will discuss the design, optimization, and current testing status of these pixels.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":641,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Low Temperature Physics","volume":"218 Part 5","pages":"21 - 28"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10909-024-03234-7.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142994318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"DEEPDISH: A Dark Matter Haloscope Using MKIDs","authors":"Miguel Daal, Benjamin Mazin","doi":"10.1007/s10909-024-03239-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10909-024-03239-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We describe a pathfinder experiment named DEEPDISH (dark matter extended energy probe: dielectric infrared superconducting haloscope) to search unexplored regions of dark matter (DM) parameter space: first for dark photon DM and later for axion DM with the application of a magnetic field. The DM would convert to photons within an optical stack and subsequently be detected by a microwave kinetic inductance detector (MKID) array.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":641,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Low Temperature Physics","volume":"218 Part 5","pages":"54 - 64"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142994467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Benjamin Criton, Xavier de la Broïse, Jean-Luc Sauvageot
{"title":"Design and First Tests From Room Temperature to 200 mK of a 16-to-1 CMOS Multiplexing ASIC for High Impedance NbSi TESs","authors":"Benjamin Criton, Xavier de la Broïse, Jean-Luc Sauvageot","doi":"10.1007/s10909-024-03236-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10909-024-03236-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Achieving high spectral and spatial resolution of wide astrophysical objects in the X-ray band will be the main focus of the future X-ray space telescopes. We explore a new technological solution based on high impedance NbSi TES detectors (<span>(sim )</span>2 M<span>(Omega )</span>) enabling the transfer of the pre-amplification stage to higher temperatures (4 K) and the use of a 50 mK CMOS time-division multiplexer to reduce power dissipation at 50 mK. We present the design and first tests, down to 200 mK, of this CMOS ASIC eventually able to work down to 50 mK and multiplexing 16 high impedance NbSi TES detectors to one 4 K amplifier with a total power budget under 2 <span>(mu )</span>W. In parallel of this development we fabricated 4-by-4 NbSi pixel matrices to build a complete demonstrator (comprising the detector array, presented in another paper to be published, the multiplexing ASIC and the 4 K amplification stage). We aim at a multiplexing frame time of 48 <span>(mu )</span>s leaving 3 <span>(mu )</span>s for reading-out each high impedance pixel. The multiplexing ASIC embeds parasitic capacity compensation techniques.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":641,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Low Temperature Physics","volume":"218 Part 5","pages":"39 - 53"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10909-024-03236-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142994459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Bray, S. Fretwell, I. Kim, W. K. Warburton, F. Ponce, K. G. Leach, S. Friedrich, R. Abells, P. Amaro, A. Andoche, R. Cantor, D. Diercks, M. Guerra, A. Hall, C. Harris, J. T. Harris, L. Hayen, P. A. Hervieux, G. B. Kim, A. Lennarz, V. Lordi, J. Machado, P. Machule, A. Marino, D. McKeen, X. Mougeot, C. Ruiz, A. Samanta, J. P. Santos, C. Stone-Whitehead
{"title":"The Data Acquisition System for Phase-III of the BeEST Experiment","authors":"C. Bray, S. Fretwell, I. Kim, W. K. Warburton, F. Ponce, K. G. Leach, S. Friedrich, R. Abells, P. Amaro, A. Andoche, R. Cantor, D. Diercks, M. Guerra, A. Hall, C. Harris, J. T. Harris, L. Hayen, P. A. Hervieux, G. B. Kim, A. Lennarz, V. Lordi, J. Machado, P. Machule, A. Marino, D. McKeen, X. Mougeot, C. Ruiz, A. Samanta, J. P. Santos, C. Stone-Whitehead","doi":"10.1007/s10909-024-03242-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10909-024-03242-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The BeEST experiment is a precision laboratory search for physics beyond the standard model that measures the electron capture decay of <span>(^7)</span>Be implanted into superconducting tunnel junction (STJ) detectors. For Phase-III of the experiment, we constructed a continuously sampling data acquisition system to extract pulse shape and timing information from 16 STJ pixels offline. Four additional pixels are read out with a fast list-mode digitizer, and one with a nuclear MCA already used in the earlier limit-setting phases of the experiment. We present the performance of the data acquisition system and discuss the relative advantages of the different digitizers.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":641,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Low Temperature Physics","volume":"218 Part 5","pages":"74 - 82"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142994460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shihong Fu, Giovanni Benato, Carlo Bucci, Paolo Gorla, Pedro V. Guillaumon, Jiang Li, Serge Nagorny, Francesco Nozzoli, Lorenzo Pagnanini, Andrei Puiu, Matthew Stukel
{"title":"LUCE: A Milli-Kelvin Calorimeter Experiment to Study the Electron Capture of (^{176})Lu","authors":"Shihong Fu, Giovanni Benato, Carlo Bucci, Paolo Gorla, Pedro V. Guillaumon, Jiang Li, Serge Nagorny, Francesco Nozzoli, Lorenzo Pagnanini, Andrei Puiu, Matthew Stukel","doi":"10.1007/s10909-024-03231-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10909-024-03231-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The LUCE (<b>LU</b>tetium s<b>C</b>intillation <b>E</b>xperiment) project will search for the <span>(^{176})</span>Lu electron capture based on a milli-Kelvin calorimetric approach. This decay is of special interest in the fields of nuclear structure, rare event searches, and measurements of nuclear matrix elements of long-lived isotopes. The experiment is primarily searching for a mono-energetic peak from the <span>(7^- rightarrow 2^+)</span> forbidden transition. The current status and design of a novel cryogenic module for the measurements of the electron capture in <span>(^{176})</span>Lu are reported on. Details of future measurement plans are presented.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":641,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Low Temperature Physics","volume":"218 Part 5","pages":"12 - 20"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142994638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}