ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The publications produced in MICROKELVIN Collaboration should acknowledge the support of the European Community - Research Infrastructures under the FP7 Capacities Specific Programme, MICROKELVIN project number 228464.

JRA1: Opening the microkelvin regime to nanoscience

1. A.C. Clark, K.K. Schwarzwälder, T. Bandi, D. Maradan, and D. M. Zumbühl, Method for cooling nanostructures to microkelvin temperatures, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 81, 103904 (2010) [URL]

JRA2: Ultra low temperature nanorefrigerator

1. S. Gasparinetti, F. Deon, G. Biasiol, L. Sorba, F. Beltram, and F. Giazotto, Probing the local temperature of a 2DEG microdomain with a quantum dot: measurement of electron-phonon interaction, Phys. Rev. B (2011)
2. J.T. Muhonen, M.J. Prest, M. Prunnila, D. Gunnarsson, V.A. Shah, A. Dobbie, M. Myronov, R.J.H. Morris, T.E. Whall, E.H.C. Parker, and D.R. Leadley, Strain control of electron-phonon energy loss rate in many-valley semiconductors, Appl. Phys. Lett. (2011)
3. J.T. Peltonen, P. Virtanen, M. Meschke, J.V. Koski, T.T. Heikkilä, and J.P. Pekola, Thermal Conductance by the Inverse Proximity Effect in a Superconductor, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 097004 (2010) [URL]
4. J.P. Pekola, V.F. Maisi, S. Kafanov, N. Chekurov, A. Kemppinen, Yu.A. Pashkin, O.-P. Saira, M. Möttönen, and J.S. Tsai, Environment-Assisted Tunneling as an Origin of the Dynes Density of States, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 026803 (2010) [URL]
5. F. Dahlem, P. Achatz, O.A. Williams, D. Araujo, E. Bustarret, and H. Courtois, Spatially Correlated Microstructure and Superconductivity in Polycrystalline Boron-Doped Diamond, Phys. Rev. B 82, 033306 (2010) [URL]
6. F. Dahlem, T. Kociniewski, C. Marcenat, A. Grockowiak, L. Pascal, P. Achatz, J. Boulmer, D. Debarre, T. Klein, E. Bustarret, and H. Courtois, Subkelvin tunneling spectroscopy showing Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer superconductivity in heavily boron-doped silicon epilayers, Phys. Rev. B 82, 140505 (2010) [URL]
7. R. Barends, N. Vercruyssen, A. Endo, P.J. de Visser, T. Zijlstra, T.M. Klapwijk, P. Diener, S.J.C. Yates, and J.J.A. Baselmans, Minimal resonator loss for circuit quantum electrodynamics, Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 023508 (2010) [URL]
8. R. Barends, N. Vercruyssen, A. Endo, P.J. de Visser, T. Zijlstra, T.M. Klapwijk, and J.J.A. Baselmans, Reduced frequency noise in superconducting resonators, Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 033507 (2010) [URL]

Preprints:

1. F. Deon, V. Pellegrini, F. Giazotto, G. Biasiol, L. Sorba, and F. Beltram, Proximity effect in a two dimensional electron gas probed with a lateral quantum dot [URL]
2. F. Giazotto and F. Taddei, Hybrid superconducting quantum magnetometer [URL]

JRA3: Attacking fundamental physics questions by microkelvin condensed-matter experiments

1. D.I. Bradley, S.N. Fisher, A.M. Guenault, R.P. Haley, G.R. Pickett, D.Potts, and V. Tsepelin, Direct measurement of the energy dissipated by quantum turbulence, Nature Phys. 7, 473 (2011) [URL]
2. J.J. Hosio, V.B. Eltsov, R. de Graaf, P.J. Heikkinen, R. Hänninen, M. Krusius, V.S. L'vov, and G.E. Volovik, Superfluid vortex front at T -> 0: Decoupling from the reference frame, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 135302 (2011) [URL]
3. N. Sasa, T. Kano, M. Machida, V.S. L'vov, O. Rudenko, and M. Tsubota, Energy spectra of quantum turbulence: Large-scale simulation and modeling, Phys. Rev. B 84, 054525 (2011) [URL]
4. R. de Graaf, V.B. Eltsov, J.J. Hosio, P.J. Heikkinen, and M. Krusius, Textures of Superfluid 3He-B in Applied Flow and Comparison with Hydrostatic Theory, J. Low Temp. Phys. (2011) [URL]
5. D.I. Bradley, A.M. Guenault, S.N. Fisher, R.P. Haley, M.J. Jackson, D. Nye, K. O'Shea, G.R. Pickett, and V. Tsepelin, History Dependence of Turbulence Generated by a Vibrating Wire in Superfluid He-4 at 1.5 K, J. Low Temp. Phys. 162, 375 (2011) [URL]
6. V.B. Eltsov, R. de Graaf, M. Krusius, and D.E. Zmeev, Vortex core contribution to textural energy in 3He-B below 0.4 Tc, J. Low Temp. Phys. 162, 212 (2011) [URL]
7. V.V. Lebedev and V.S. L'vov, Symmetries and Interaction coefficients of Kelvin waves, J. Low Temp. Phys. 161, 548 (2010) [URL]
8. V.S. L'vov and S. Nazarenko, Discrete and mesoscopic regimes of finite-size wave turbulence, Phys. Rev. E 82, 056322 (2010) [URL]
9. V.B. Eltsov, R. de Graaf, P.J. Heikkinen, J.J. Hosio, R. Hänninen, and M. Krusius, Vortex formation and annihilation in rotating superfluid 3He-B at low temperatures, J. Low Temp. Phys. 161, 474 (2010) [URL]
10. H. Godfrin, M. Meschke, H.-J. Lauter, H.M. Böhm, E. Krotscheck, and M. Panholzer, Observation of Zero-Sound at Atomic Wave-Vectors in a Monolayer of Liquid 3He, J. Low Temp. Phys. 158, 147 (2010) [URL]
11. D.I. Bradley, S.N. Fisher, A.M. Guenault, R.P. Haley, N. Mulders, G.R. Pickett, D. Potts, P. Skyba, J. Smith, V. Tsepelin, and R.C.V. Whitehead, Magnetic Phase Transition in a Nanonetwork of Solid 3He in Aerogel, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 125303 (2010) [URL]
12. V.B. Eltsov, R. de Graaf, P.J. Heikkinen, J.J. Hosio, R. Hänninen, M. Krusius, and V. S. L'vov, Stability and dissipation of laminar vortex flow in superfluid 3He-B, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 125301 (2010) [URL]
13. S. Fujiyama, A. Mitani, M. Tsubota, D.I. Bradley, S.N. Fisher, A.M. Guenault, R.P. Haley, G.R. Pickett, and V. Tsepelin, Generation, evolution, and decay of pure quantum turbulence: A full Biot-Savart simulation, Phys. Rev. B 81, 180512 (2010) [URL]
14. J. Laurie, V.S. L'vov, S. Nazarenko, and O. Rudenko, Interaction of Kelvin waves and non-locality of the energy transfer in superfluids, Phys. Rev. B 81, 104526 (2010) [URL]
15. V.S. L'vov and S. Nazarenko, Spectrum of Kelvin-wave turbulence in superfluids, Pis'ma v ZhETF 91, 464-470 (2010) [URL]; JETP Lett. 91, 428-434 (2010) [URL]
16. R. Numasato, M. Tsubota, and V.S. L'vov, Direct Energy Cascade in Two-Dimensional Compressible Quantum Turbulence, Phys. Rev. A 81, 063630 (2010) [URL]
17. G.E. Volovik, Fermion zero modes at the boundary of superfluid 3He-B, Pis'ma ZhETF 90, 440-442 (2009) [URL]; JETP Lett. 90, 398-401 (2009) [URL]
18. G.E. Volovik, Osmotic pressure of matter and vacuum energy, Pis'ma ZhETF 90, 659-662 (2009) [URL]; JETP Lett. 90, 595-598 (2009) [URL]

Preprints

1. J.J. Hosio, V.B. Eltsov, R. de Graaf, M. Krusius, J. Mäkinen, and D. Schmoranzer, Propagation of thermal excitations in a cluster of vortices in superfluid 3He-B [URL]
2. P.M. Walmsley, V.B. Eltsov, P.J. Heikkinen, J.J. Hosio, R. Hänninen, and M. Krusius, Turbulent vortex flow responses at the AB interface in rotating superfluid 3He-B [URL]
3. Yu.M. Bunkov and G.E. Volovik, Spin superfluidity and magnon Bose-Einstein condensation [URL]
4. S. Autti, Yu.M. Bunkov, V.B. Eltsov, P.J. Heikkinen, J.J. Hosio, P. Hunger, M. Krusius, and G.E. Volovik, Ground-state and non-ground-state Bose-Einstein condensation of magnons in superfluid 3He-B [URL]

JRA4: Novel devices and methods for ultra low temperature experiments

1. E. Collin, T. Moutonet, J.-S. Heron, O. Bourgeois, Yu.M. Bunkov, and H. Godfrin, A tunable hybrid electro-magnetomotive NEMS device for low temperature physics, J. Low Temp. Phys. 162, 653 (2011) [URL]
2. H. Godfrin, H. Meyer, Y. Bunkov, and E. Collin, Preface, J. Low Temp. Phys. 162, 81 (2011) [URL]
3. O. Usenko, A. Vinante, G. Wijts, T.H. Oosterkamp, A SQUID based read-out of sub-attonewton force sensor operating at millikelvin temperatures, Appl. Phys. Lett. 98, 133105 (2011) [URL]
4. A. Salmela, A. Sebedash, J. Rysti, E. Pentti, and J. Tuoriniemi, Osmotic pressure of 3He/4He mixtures at the crystallization pressure and at millikelvin temperatures, Phys. Rev. B 83, 134510 (2011) [URL]
5. A. Salmela, J. Tuoriniemi, and J. Rysti, Acoustic resonances in helium fluids excited by quartz tuning forks, J. Low Temp. Phys. 162, 678 (2011) [URL]
6. D. Rothfuss, U. Kühn, A. Reiser, A. Fleischmann, and C. Enss, Thermal conductivity of superconducting bulk metallic glasses at very low temperatures, Chinese J. Phys. 49, 384 (2011)
7. E. Collin, Yu.M. Bunkov, and H. Godfrin, Addressing geometric non-linearities with cantilever MEMS: beyond the Duffing model, Phys. Rev. B 82, 235416 (2010) [URL]
8. E. Collin, J. Kofler, S. Lakhloufi, S. Pairis, Yu.M. Bunkov, and H. Godfrin, Metallic coatings of microelectromechanical structures at low temperatures: Stress, elasticity, and nonlinear dissipation, J. Appl. Phys. 107, 114905 (2010) [URL]
9. M. Prunnila, M. Meschke, D. Gunnarsson, S. Enouz-Vedrenne, J.M. Kivioja, and J.P. Pekola, Ex situ tunnel junction process technique characterized by Coulomb blockade thermometry, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 28, 1026 (2010) [URL]
10. D.I. Bradley, P. Crookston, M.J. Fear, S.N. Fisher, G. Foulds, D. Garg, A.M. Guenault, E. Guise, R.P. Haley, O. Kolosov, G.R. Pickett, R. Schanen, and V. Tsepelin, Measuring the Prong Velocity of Quartz Tuning Forks Used to Probe Quantum Fluids, J. Low Temp. Phys. 161, 536 (2010) [URL]
11. P. Skyba, Notes on Measurement Methods of Mechanical Resonators Used in Low Temperature Physics, J. Low Temp. Phys. 160, 219 (2010) [URL]

Preprints

1. M. Meschke, J. Engert, D. Heyer, and J.P. Pekola, Comparison of Coulomb Blockade Thermometers with the International Temperature Scale PLTS-2000 [URL]