β-YbAlB4 is the first Yb-based heavy fermion superconductor with Tc=80 mK. We measured low temperature magnetization of high-purity single crystals down to T= 25 mK. The measurements have revealed a considerable amount of volume fractions of the superconductivity and the upper critical field Bc2 curve under field along the c axis, consistent with the previous results. In the normal state, the previously observed divergent behavior in the temperature dependence of the magnetization has been confirmed using higher quality samples and under a low field of 22 mT. In addition, the measurements have revealed a power law behavior, namely, dM/dT∝T3/2, which has a slightly higher exponent than the previous results.
@article{arxiv.0908.1242,
title = {Low temperature magnetization of the quantum critical heavy fermion superconductor $\beta$-YbAlB$_4$},
author = {Y. Matsumoto and K. Kuga and Y. Karaki and T. Tomita and S. Nakatsuji},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.1242},
year = {2015}
}
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3 pages, 4 figures, a proceedings paper of QCNP 2009