Professor Emeritus

Phd Duke University (1960)

Research Group

Low Temperature/ Center for Condensed Matter Sciences

Research Interest

Interests include magnetic and thermodynamic properties of solid 3He using sensitive pressure mearsurements and nuclear magnetic resonance; neutron scattering from magnetically ordered solid 3He in collaboration with colleagues at Hahn-Meitner Institut Berlin, ultra-low thermometry and cooling techniques.

Selected Publications

Ni W, Xia JS, Adams ED, Haskins PS, and McKisson JE. “3He Melting Pressure Thermometry.” J. Low Temperature Physics. 101, 1/2; 1995: 305.

Lang T, Moyland PL, Sergatskov DA, Adams ED and Takano. “Observation of Ferromagnetic Ordering in hcp 3He”. Phys. Rev. Lett. 77; 1996: 322.

Adams ED, Haley RP, and Ni W. “Comment on Nuclear Magnetic Ordering of 3He Clusters in Solid 4He.” Phys. Rev. Lett. 77; 1996:5308.

Pan W, Xia JS, Shvarts V, Adams ED, Stormer HL, Tsui DC, Pfeiffer LN, Baldwin KW, and West KW. “Exact Quantization of the Even-Denominator Fractional Quantum Hall State at v=5/2 Landau Level Filling Factor.” Phys. Rev. Lett. 83; 1999: 3550.

Matsunaga N, Shvarts VA, Adams ED, Xia JS, and Schuberth EA. “Novel Magnetism in 3He Nanoclusters.” Phys. Rev. Lett. 86; 2001: 2365.