Ultrasound measurements of the B-T diagram of the heavy-fermion material UPt3 in very high magnetic fields

Autor: Bernd Wolf, D. Finsterbusch, D. Wichert, L. Taillefer, G. Bruls, B. Lüthi, I. Kouroudis, L. Jansen
Rok vydání: 1996
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Zdroj: Physica B: Condensed Matter. :36-39
ISSN: 0921-4526
DOI: 10.1016/0921-4526(96)00032-4
Popis: We present elastic constant measurements of the heavy-fermion superconductor UPt3 at temperatures down to 50 mK and in static magnetic fields up to 30 T. These experiments yield information about the metamagnetic (MM) transition itself as a function of field as well as about the accompanying transitions as a function of temperature both above and below the critical field B ∗ = 20.5 T . A comparison is made with analogous measurements in CeRu2Si2. Moreover, we present new results on the region of the antiferromagnetic spin density wave (AF-SDW) in the B-T plane and its anisotropy with respect to the direction of the magnetic field. Here a comparison with the anisotropy of the superconducting critical fields gives clues about the interaction of superconductivity and magnetism in UPt3.
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