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Hydrostatic pressure study of single-crystalline UNi0.5Sb2
Journal of Applied Physics
  • B. K. Davis, San Diego State University
  • Milton S. Torikachvili, San Diego State University
  • Eundeok Mun, Iowa State University
  • Joshua C. Frederick, Iowa State University
  • Gordon J. Miller, Iowa State University
  • Srinivasa Thimmaiah, Iowa State University
  • Sergey L. Bud'ko, Iowa State University
  • Paul C. Canfield, Iowa State University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2008
DOI
10.1063/1.2828606
Abstract
We studied single crystals of the antiferromagnetic compound UNi0.5Sb2 (TN≈161K)by means of measurements of magnetic susceptibility(χ), specific heat(Cp), and electrical resistivity(ρ) at ambient pressure, and resistivity under hydrostatic pressures up to 20kbars, in the temperature range from 1.9to300K. The thermal coefficient of the electrical resistivity(dρ/dT) changes drastically from positive below TN to negative above, reflecting the loss of spin-disorder scattering in the ordered phase. Two small features in the ρ versus T data centered near 40 and 85K correlate well in temperature with features in the magnetic susceptibility and are consistent with other data in the literature. These features are quite hysteretic in temperature, i.e., the difference between the warming and cooling cycles are about 10 and 6K, respectively. The effect of pressure is to raise TN at the approximate rate of 0.76K/kbar, while progressively suppressing the amplitude of the small features in ρversus T at lower temperatures and increasing the thermal hysteresis.
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The following article is from Journal of Applied Physics 103 (2008): 07B704 and may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2828606.

Copyright Owner
American Institute of Physics
Language
en
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Citation Information
B. K. Davis, Milton S. Torikachvili, Eundeok Mun, Joshua C. Frederick, et al.. "Hydrostatic pressure study of single-crystalline UNi0.5Sb2" Journal of Applied Physics Vol. 103 Iss. 7 (2008) p. 07B704
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/gordon-miller/54/