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Possible High TQ in YbAl3C3 with 4 f13 System

Masashi Kosaka, Yoshiaki Kato, Chieko Araki, Nobuo Môri, Yoshiki Nakanishi1, Masahito Yoshizawa1, Kenji Ohoyama2, Catalin Martin3 and Stanley W. Tozer3

Department of Physics, Saitama University, Saitama 338-8570
1Graduate School of Frontier Materials Function Engineering, Iwate University, Morioka 020-8551
2Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577
3National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32310, U.S.A.

(Received March 5, 2005; Accepted June 27, 2005)

We report the highest transition temperature of quadrupolar ordering [TQ] in YbAl3C3, where a distinct anomaly is observed by specific heat and ultrasonic measurements at 80 K. Magnetization measurements show only a very slight change and no magnetic or structural phase transitions can be observed by neutron diffraction measurements in this temperature range. Therefore, we believe that YbAl3C3 shows an antiferroquadrupolar ordering with the highest TQ found to date and is the first realization of this ordering beyond liquid nitrogen temperatures for rare-earth and actinide intermetallic compounds. ©2005 The Physical Society of Japan

KEYWORDS: highest TQ, quadrupolar ordering, YbAl3C3, carbide, elastic constants, neutron diffraction measurements, tunnel diode oscillator technique
URL: http://jpsj.ipap.jp/link?JPSJ/74/2413/
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.74.2413


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