Pressure-Induced Superconductivity in Elemental Ytterbium Metal
Abstract
Ytterbium (Yb) metal is divalent and nonmagnetic (4f14 configuration). Under pressure its valence increases significantly leading to the expectation that magnetic instabilities and other highly correlated electron effects may appear before a stable trivalent state is reached (4f13 configuration). We carried out electrical resistivity and ac magnetic susceptibility measurements to 179 GPa over the temperature range 1.4 - 295 K. No evidence for magnetic order is observed. However, Yb becomes a superconductor at 86 GPa with Tc≃1.4 K, increasing to 4.6 K at 179 GPa. X-ray absorption spectroscopy shows that Yb remains mixed-valent to at least 125 GPa, pointing to an active role of $f$ electrons in the emergence of superconductivity in this simple, elemental solid.
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- Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO (United States). Dept. of Physics
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS); Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States). Dept. of Geology
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- Research Org.:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1493699
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1461027
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357; DMR-1104742; FC52-08NA28554; AC-02-06CH11357
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 121; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
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Song, J., Fabbris, G., Bi, W., Haskel, D., and Schilling, J. S. Pressure-Induced Superconductivity in Elemental Ytterbium Metal. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.037004.
Song, J., Fabbris, G., Bi, W., Haskel, D., & Schilling, J. S. Pressure-Induced Superconductivity in Elemental Ytterbium Metal. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.037004
Song, J., Fabbris, G., Bi, W., Haskel, D., and Schilling, J. S. Fri .
"Pressure-Induced Superconductivity in Elemental Ytterbium Metal". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.037004. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1493699.
@article{osti_1493699,
title = {Pressure-Induced Superconductivity in Elemental Ytterbium Metal},
author = {Song, J. and Fabbris, G. and Bi, W. and Haskel, D. and Schilling, J. S.},
abstractNote = {Ytterbium (Yb) metal is divalent and nonmagnetic (4f14 configuration). Under pressure its valence increases significantly leading to the expectation that magnetic instabilities and other highly correlated electron effects may appear before a stable trivalent state is reached (4f13 configuration). We carried out electrical resistivity and ac magnetic susceptibility measurements to 179 GPa over the temperature range 1.4 - 295 K. No evidence for magnetic order is observed. However, Yb becomes a superconductor at 86 GPa with Tc≃1.4 K, increasing to 4.6 K at 179 GPa. X-ray absorption spectroscopy shows that Yb remains mixed-valent to at least 125 GPa, pointing to an active role of $f$ electrons in the emergence of superconductivity in this simple, elemental solid.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.037004},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 3,
volume = 121,
place = {United States},
year = {2018},
month = {7}
}
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FIG. 1: (a) Resistance of Yb in run R1 versus temperature from 1.4 K to 295 K for pressures to 179 GPa at low temperature. The maximum value of the residual resistance 430 mΩ corresponds to a resistivity of approximately 10 μΩcm. Inset shows smooth R(T) dependence below 25 K;more »
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