Atomic Theory of the Lambda Transition in Helium. WITH: Atomic Theory of Liquid Helium Near Absolute Zero. WITH: Atomic Theory of the Two-Fluid Model of Liquid Helium
FIRST EDITIONS of Feynman's three major papers on superfluidity.
"In 1950 Feynman left Cornell to join the faculty of the California Institute of Technology, where, except for a year in Brazil (1951-1952), he would spend the rest of his career. At Caltech he turned his attention to the problem of superfluidity in liquid helium. Russian theorist Lev Landau had shown that the remarkable ability of superfluid helium at low temperature to flow without resistance resulted from the fact that the liquid could take up energy from its surroundings only in certain very restricted ways. Feynman succeeded in tracing Landau's observation to its quantum mechanical roots. Feynman diagrams would later become an important research tool in this field, but Feynman did not use them to solve this problem. Instead he reverted to the old-fashioned Schrödinger formulation of quantum mechanics, using his remarkable intuition to guess the nature of a giant quantum system" (American National Biography).
IN: The Physical Review, September 15, 1953; Vol 91, No. 6, pp. 1291-1301; 1301-1308; April 15, 1954, Vol. 94, No. 2, pp. 262-277. Lancaster, PA and New York, NY: American Institute of Physics, 1953-54. Quarto, original green wrappers rebacked. Two volumes. A little toning to wrapper edges, otherwise fine.
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