THERMAL-EXPANSION AND MAGNETOSTRICTION OF SUPERCONDUCTING URU2SI2

被引:16
作者
VANDIJK, NH
DEVISSER, A
FRANSE, JJM
MENOVSKY, AA
机构
[1] Van Der Waals-Zeeman Laboratory, University of Amsterdam, 1018 XE Amsterdam
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1995年 / 51卷 / 18期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.51.12665
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
摘要
Dilatation measurements have been performed on a single-crystalline sample of the heavy-fermion superconductor URu2Si2 (Tc=1.2 K). Thermal-expansion measurements in combination with specific-heat data reveal a thermal electronic Grüneisen parameter of ΓT=27. A comparison with the magnetic electronic Grüneisen parameter derived from the magnetostriction, ΓB=26, points to a single energy scale. The measured magnetostriction is strongly anisotropic with a peculiar hysteresis. Close to the upper critical field, a change of sign in the magnetostrictive hysteresis is observed. © 1995 The American Physical Society.
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页码:12665 / 12672
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