Published February 9, 2024 | Version v1
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Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy for Irregularly Shaped Samples and Its Application to Uranium Ditelluride

Creators

  • 1. Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
  • 2. Quantum Materials Center, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
  • 3. Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA
  • 4. The Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan
  • 5. Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
  • 6. Institute for Quantum Matter and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
  • 7. Trans-scale Quantum Science Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
  • 8. Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA

Description

Resonant ultrasound spectroscopy (RUS) is a powerful technique for measuring the full elastic tensor of a given material in a single experiment. Previously, this technique was practically limited to regularly shaped samples such as rectangular parallelepipeds, spheres, and cylinders [W. M. Visscher et al. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 90, 2154 (1991)]. We demonstrate a new method for determining the elastic moduli of irregularly shaped samples, extending the applicability of RUS to a much larger set of materials. We apply this new approach to the recently discovered unconventional superconductor UTe2 and provide its elastic tensor at both 300 and 4 kelvin.

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.066003;
arXiv
arXiv:2303.03473;
Crossref Funder ID
10.13039/100006151; 10.13039/100000002; 10.13039/100000001; 10.13039/100013111; 10.13039/100008510; 10.13039/100000015; 10.13039/100000936; 10.13039/100000161;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
132
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
7 pgs.
ISSN
0031-9007

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Subject category
S75: CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; S36: MATERIALS SCIENCE;
Descriptors DEI
CYLINDERS; ELASTICITY; MATERIALS; MEASURING METHODS; RESONANCE; SHAPE; SPECTROSCOPY; SPHERES; SPHERICAL CONFIGURATION; SUPERCONDUCTORS; TENSORS; ULTRASONIC WAVES; URANIUM
Descriptors DEC
ACTINIDES; CONFIGURATION; ELEMENTS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; METALS; SOUND WAVES

Optional Information

Copyright
© 2024 American Physical Society
Contract/Grant/Project number
DE-SC0020143; S10OD012287; DMR-1719875; DE-SC-0019154; GBMF9071; DE-SC0019331
Notes
Contact Email: bradramshaw@cornell.edu; Record automatically processed
Funding organization
Basic Energy Sciences; National Institutes of Health; National Science Foundation; Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Harvard University; University of Maryland; U.S. Department of Energy; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; National Institute of Standards and Technology; Institute for Quantum Matter; Cornell Institute of Biotechnology; Cornell Center for Materials Research Shared Facilities; Maryland Quantum Materials Center