AbstractWe studied the thermal conductivity of superfluid $$^{3}$$
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He in a 2.5-mm effective diameter and 0.15-m-long channel connecting the two volumes of our experimental assembly. The main volume contained pure solid $$^{4}$$
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He, pure liquid $$^{3}$$
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He and saturated liquid $$^{3}$$
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He–$$^{4}$$
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He mixture at varying proportions, while the separate heat-exchanger volume housed sinter and was filled by liquid $$^{3}$$
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He. The system was cooled externally by a copper nuclear demagnetization stage, and, as an option, internally by the adiabatic melting of solid $$^{4}$$
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He in the main volume. The counterflow effect of superfluid just below the transition temperature $$T_\mathrm{c}$$
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resulted in the highest observed conductivity about five times larger than that of the normal fluid at the $$T_\mathrm{c}$$
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. Once the hydrodynamic contribution had practically vanished below $$0.5T_\mathrm{c}$$
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, we first observed almost constant conductivity nearly equal to the normal fluid value at the $$T_\mathrm{c}$$
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. Finally, below about $$0.3T_\mathrm{c}$$
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, the conductivity rapidly falls off toward lower temperatures.