SQUID磁束計による磁化測定

図1 Quantum Design社製MPMS

Quantum Design社製のMPMS(Magnetic property Measurement System) (図1) は取り扱いが簡便で測定感度が高い磁化測定装置です。  この装置は引き抜き法と呼ばれる方法を用いて磁化を求めています。引き抜き法とは図2のようなコイルの中で磁化した試料を引き抜きコイルに発生した誘導起電力を測定、フィッティングすることで磁化を求める方法です。コイルが上下と中心で逆向きになっていることで外部の磁場の干渉やノイズを除去することができます。 MPMSで測定できる温度は2~400 K、印加できる磁場は-5.5 T~5.5 Tです。また圧力セルを用いることで高圧下での磁化測定、回転機構を用いることで角度分解磁化測定といった測定も可能になります。

図2 引き抜き法の概念図

図3 試料の位置に対する誘導起電力とフィッティング関数


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放電加工機

金属ワイヤーに電気を通し、試料を溶かしながら正確に平面を出すことで、試料の整形を行うことができます。 試料の切断は油の中で行われ、放電による過剰な発熱や、試料の切りくずが空気中に舞うことを防ぎます。よって、放射性物質でも安全に試料整形することができます。

図1 実際にスパークカッターで試料を加工する過程
(軸方向はX線ラウエ法などで決定している)


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ピストンシリンダーによる高圧下電気抵抗・AC磁化率測定

ハイブリッド型ピストンシリンダーセル(Ni-Cr-Al合金とCu-Be合金の二層構造)を用いて、最大2.5 GPa(25000気圧)までの電気抵抗率・交流帯磁率などのバルク測定が可能です。試料空間が大きいため感度のよい測定が行えるのが特徴です。コンパクトなサイズのため、PPMSや希釈冷凍機などに取り付け可能です。

図1 ピストンシリンダーセル概観


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Topics: Double ultrasonic dispersions due to rattling in SmOs4Sb12

Magnetic-Field-Independent Ultrasonic Dispersions due to Rattling in the Magnetically Robust Heavy Fermion System SmOs4Sb12
Tatsuya YANAGISAWA, Yoichi IKEDA, Hitoshi SAITO, Hiroyuki HIDAKA, Hiroshi AMITSUKA, Koji ARAKI, Mitsuhiro AKATSU, Yuichi NEMOTO, Terutaka GOTO, Pei-Chun HO, Ryan E. BAUMBACH, and M. Brian MAPLE

Elastic properties of the filled skutterudite compound SmOs4Sb12 have been investigated by ultrasonic measurements. The elastic constant C12(\omega) shows two ultrasonic dispersions at ∼15 K and ∼53 K for frequencies \omega between 33 and 316 MHz, which follow a Debye-type formula with Arrhenius-type temperature-dependent relaxation times, and remain unchanged even with applied magnetic fields up to 10 T. The corresponding activation energies were estimated to be E2 = 105 K and E1 = 409 K, respectively. The latter, E1, is the highest value reported so far in the Sb-based filled skutterudites. The presence of magnetically robust ultrasonic dispersions in SmOs4Sb12 implies a possibility that an emergence of a magnetically insensitive heavy fermion state in this system is associated with a novel local charge degree of freedom which causes the ultrasonic dispersion.


J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 80 (2011) 043601.

(also available on cond-mat/1010.1387)

SmOs_4Sb_12 Ultrasonic Dispersion

Figures (a) Comparison of the ultrasonic dispersions that appear in elastic constant C11 of ROs4Sb12 (R = La-Sm) at several frequencies. Lower arrowheads with numbers 1 and 2 indicate the relaxation point \omega\taui ∼ 1 for i = 1 and 2, respectively. (\omega is ultrasonic frequency and \tau is relaxation time) The displayed data have been shifted to eliminate overlapping with each other and the SmOs4Sb12 data are magnified three times for the \Delta C11/C11-axis. (b) Arrhenius plots of the characteristic parameters of the ultrasonic dispersions (Attempt time: \tau0(i), Activation Energy: Ei) for ROs4Sb12 (R = La-Sm).

(*This research was performed at UC San Diego, Hokkaido University, and Niigata University in 2010.)


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Topics: Double ultrasonic dispersions due to rattling in SmOs4Sb12

Magnetic-Field-Independent Ultrasonic Dispersions due to Rattling in the Magnetically Robust Heavy Fermion System SmOs4Sb12
Tatsuya YANAGISAWA, Yoichi IKEDA, Hitoshi SAITO, Hiroyuki HIDAKA, Hiroshi AMITSUKA, Koji ARAKI, Mitsuhiro AKATSU, Yuichi NEMOTO, Terutaka GOTO, Pei-Chun HO, Ryan E. BAUMBACH, and M. Brian MAPLE

Elastic properties of the filled skutterudite compound SmOs4Sb12 have been investigated by ultrasonic measurements. The elastic constant C12(\omega) shows two ultrasonic dispersions at ∼15 K and ∼53 K for frequencies \omega between 33 and 316 MHz, which follow a Debye-type formula with Arrhenius-type temperature-dependent relaxation times, and remain unchanged even with applied magnetic fields up to 10 T. The corresponding activation energies were estimated to be E2 = 105 K and E1 = 409 K, respectively. The latter, E1, is the highest value reported so far in the Sb-based filled skutterudites. The presence of magnetically robust ultrasonic dispersions in SmOs4Sb12 implies a possibility that an emergence of a magnetically insensitive heavy fermion state in this system is associated with a novel local charge degree of freedom which causes the ultrasonic dispersion.


J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 80 (2011) 043601.

(also available on cond-mat/1010.1387)

SmOs_4Sb_12 Ultrasonic Dispersion

Figures (a) Comparison of the ultrasonic dispersions that appear in elastic constant C11 of ROs4Sb12 (R = La-Sm) at several frequencies. Lower arrowheads with numbers 1 and 2 indicate the relaxation point \omega\taui ∼ 1 for i = 1 and 2, respectively. (\omega is ultrasonic frequency and \tau is relaxation time) The displayed data have been shifted to eliminate overlapping with each other and the SmOs4Sb12 data are magnified three times for the \Delta C11/C11-axis. (b) Arrhenius plots of the characteristic parameters of the ultrasonic dispersions (Attempt time: \tau0(i), Activation Energy: Ei) for ROs4Sb12 (R = La-Sm).

(*This research was performed at UC San Diego, Hokkaido University, and Niigata University in 2010.)


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