Electrons and Ions in Liquid Helium

Electrons and ions have been used for over 40 years as probes to investigate the fascinating properties of helium liquids. The study of the transport properties of microscopic charge carriers sheds light on superfluidity, on quantum hydrodynamics, on the interactions with collective excitations in quantum liquids. The structure of the probes themselves depends on their coupling with the liquid environment in a way that gives further insight into the microscopic behavior of the liquid in different thermodynamic conditions, such as in the superfluid phase, in the normal phase, or near the liquid-vapor critical point.
This book is a comprehensive review of the experiments and theories about the transport properties of charge carriers in liquid helium. This is a subject about which no such other reviews are devoted.
The book is intended for graduate and postgraduate students and for the specialists who will benefit of its completenes and accuracy.

Electrons and ions have been used for over 40 years as probes to investigate the fascinating properties of helium liquids. The study of the transport properties of microscopic charge carriers sheds light on superfluidity, on quantum hydrodynamics, on the interactions with collective excitations in quantum liquids. The structure of the probes themselves depends on their coupling with the liquid environment in a way that gives further insight into the microscopic behavior of the liquid in different thermodynamic conditions, such as in the superfluid phase, in the normal phase, or near the liquid-vapor critical point.
This book is a comprehensive review of the experiments and theories about the transport properties of charge carriers in liquid helium. This is a subject about which no such other reviews are devoted.
The book is intended for graduate and postgraduate students and for the specialists who will benefit of its completenes and accuracy.

Armando Francesco Borghesani Associate Professor of Physics Department of Physics University of Padua Italy After completing humanistic studies at high school in 1974, I studied Physics at the University of Padua, where I got the &'grave;Laurea in Fisica'' in March 1979.
Thereafter, I worked as junior scientist in the R&D labs of SGS-ATES (now ST Microelectronics, Milan, Italy) in the field of plasma etching for semiconductors from May 1980 through November 1981.
Then, I joined ASSORENI (now Eniricerche, Milan, Italy), the company for scientific research of ENI Group, in which I acted as a scientist from November 1981 through July 1983.
By September 1983 I got a tenured position as Assistant Professor in the Low Temperature Lab of the Department of Physics of the University of Padua.
By November 1992 I was promoted to Associate Professor of Physics in the same university. This is my present position.
At the University I have taught courses in Electromagnetism, Fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics, Analog Electronics.