Researchers Cook Up a Baked Alaska in Superfluid Helium‐3
DOI: 10.1063/1.2809688
The conventional recipe for a baked Alaska calls for meringue, solid ice cream and a moderate degree of culinary skill. The baked Alaskas recently observed by Peter Schiffer, Douglas Osheroff and coworkers at Stanford University involve the superfluid phases of helium‐3, sample cells with ultrasmooth walls and a sprinkling of cosmic rays. Their results strongly support the “baked Alaska” model that was devised to solve the long‐standing puzzle of how the B phase of superfluid
