Pressure dependence of antiferromagnetic and superconducting phases in U2Rh1–xPtxC2
Abstract
In this work, we report temperature (T)- and pressure (P)-dependent resistivity measurements on the isostructural compounds U2Rh1–xPtxC2 (x = 0, 0.5, and 0.9) from which we construct a T–P–x phase diagram. Compounds with x = 0 and x = 0.5 are antiferromagnets below 22.1 and 9.4 K, respectively, and their Néel temperature (TN) decreases under applied pressure. For x = 0, the critical pressure Pc required to suppress TN to zero temperature is projected to be about 8.8 GPa, but Pc for x = 0.5 is between 1.6 and 2.1 GPa. At atmospheric pressure, increasing Pt concentration in U2Rh(1–x)PtxC2 tunes magnetic transition temperatures to zero at a critical value of xc ≈ 0.7, and, consequently, we surmise the existence of a quantum-phase boundary in the P–x plane at T = 0 K that extends from (P = 0, x = xc) to (Pc ≈ 8.8 GPa, x = 0). For x = 0.9, superconductivity appears at Tc = 1.09 K , which decreases at a rate of ≈ –1 K/GPa that is nearly twice that found for U2PtC2 whose Tc is 1.47 K. Together, these results indicate that domes of magnetism and superconductivity formed with T–P–x variations are detached andmore »
- Authors:
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- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Sungkyunkwan Univ., Suwon (Republic of Korea)
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, Wuhan (China)
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD (United States); Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, MD (United States)
- Sungkyunkwan Univ., Suwon (Republic of Korea)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1726190
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-20-22135
Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950; TRN: US2205079
- Grant/Contract Number:
- 89233218CNA000001; 2012R1A3A2048816
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review B
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 102; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; Material Science
Citation Formats
Lee, Sangyun, Luo, Yongkang, Bauer, Eric Dietzgen, Thompson, Joe David, Ronning, Filip, Wakeham, Nickolas, Kim, Duk Young, and Park, Tuson. Pressure dependence of antiferromagnetic and superconducting phases in U2Rh1–xPtxC2. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1103/physrevb.102.035124.
Lee, Sangyun, Luo, Yongkang, Bauer, Eric Dietzgen, Thompson, Joe David, Ronning, Filip, Wakeham, Nickolas, Kim, Duk Young, & Park, Tuson. Pressure dependence of antiferromagnetic and superconducting phases in U2Rh1–xPtxC2. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.102.035124
Lee, Sangyun, Luo, Yongkang, Bauer, Eric Dietzgen, Thompson, Joe David, Ronning, Filip, Wakeham, Nickolas, Kim, Duk Young, and Park, Tuson. Mon .
"Pressure dependence of antiferromagnetic and superconducting phases in U2Rh1–xPtxC2". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.102.035124. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1726190.
@article{osti_1726190,
title = {Pressure dependence of antiferromagnetic and superconducting phases in U2Rh1–xPtxC2},
author = {Lee, Sangyun and Luo, Yongkang and Bauer, Eric Dietzgen and Thompson, Joe David and Ronning, Filip and Wakeham, Nickolas and Kim, Duk Young and Park, Tuson},
abstractNote = {In this work, we report temperature (T)- and pressure (P)-dependent resistivity measurements on the isostructural compounds U2Rh1–xPtxC2 (x = 0, 0.5, and 0.9) from which we construct a T–P–x phase diagram. Compounds with x = 0 and x = 0.5 are antiferromagnets below 22.1 and 9.4 K, respectively, and their Néel temperature (TN) decreases under applied pressure. For x = 0, the critical pressure Pc required to suppress TN to zero temperature is projected to be about 8.8 GPa, but Pc for x = 0.5 is between 1.6 and 2.1 GPa. At atmospheric pressure, increasing Pt concentration in U2Rh(1–x)PtxC2 tunes magnetic transition temperatures to zero at a critical value of xc ≈ 0.7, and, consequently, we surmise the existence of a quantum-phase boundary in the P–x plane at T = 0 K that extends from (P = 0, x = xc) to (Pc ≈ 8.8 GPa, x = 0). For x = 0.9, superconductivity appears at Tc = 1.09 K , which decreases at a rate of ≈ –1 K/GPa that is nearly twice that found for U2PtC2 whose Tc is 1.47 K. Together, these results indicate that domes of magnetism and superconductivity formed with T–P–x variations are detached and that the two broken symmetries are independent of each other. Fluctuations in average composition produce rare regions that play an important role in determining physical properties of materials with noninteger x.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevb.102.035124},
journal = {Physical Review B},
number = 3,
volume = 102,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jul 13 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Mon Jul 13 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}
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