Database for Casimir forces in Helium
My experiments at Penn State studying the behavior of thin films of 4He near the lambda point and 3He-4He mixtures in the vicinity of the tricritical point went a long way towards proving the existence of so-called critical Casimir forces. These forces, first predicted in 1978 by de Gennes and Fisher, are caused by fluctuations which diverge as we approach a second-order phase transition.
In response to a subsequent need among theorists to access the original data from these experiments, I created a database here at WPI, so that they can obtain the data easily. Below are the current directories that constitute this database. If you need any other specific data from one of my papers, please let me know and I will place it on this website.