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Low temperature magnetization of the quantum critical heavy fermion superconductor $\beta$-YbAlB$_4$

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2015-10-28 v1

Abstract

β\beta-YbAlB4_4 is the first Yb-based heavy fermion superconductor with Tc=80T_{\rm c} = 80 mK. We measured low temperature magnetization of high-purity single crystals down to T=T= 25 mK. The measurements have revealed a considerable amount of volume fractions of the superconductivity and the upper critical field Bc2B_{c2} 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/dTT3/2dM/dT\propto T^{3/2}, which has a slightly higher exponent than the previous results.

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@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