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The investigations of low-temperature heat capacity in pure and impurity doped high temperature superconductors have been performed by high-precision pulsed differential scanning calorimeter, providing the measurements of heat capacities…
The thermal conductivity of Zn-doped YBCO crystals was studied at low temperature (0.15 < T < 0.8 K) for different concentrations of Zn impurities. A small amount of Zn induces a dramatic decrease in the non-linear component of the…
Using an asymptotic solution of the M-impurity thermodynamics of a dilute s-d system, the impurity energy and impurity heat capacity DeltaC(T) are derived for dilute magnetic alloys with spin 1/2 and spin 3/2 impurities. The parameters…
We present a new type of calorimeter in which we couple an unknown heat capacity with the aid of Peltier elements to an electrical circuit. The use of an electrical inductance and an amplifier in the circuit allows us to achieve autonomous…
The work gives the estimation of the heat capacity jump at melting in water of collagen fibers of rat tail tendons. The measurements were carried out by an original calorimetric system designed by the authors, which in contrast to modern…
Heat capacity measurements using the ac steady state method are often considered difficult to provide absolute accuracy. By adjusting the working frequency to maintain a constant phase and using the phase information to obtain the heat…
Using numerical renormalization group we study thermodynamic properties of a magnetic impurity described by the Anderson impurity model in a superconducting host material described by the BCS Hamiltonian. When the Kondo temperature in the…
The low temperature heat capacity of amorphous materials reveals a low-frequency enhancement (boson peak) of the vibrational density of states, as compared with the Debye law. By measuring the low-temperature heat capacity of a Zr-based…
By measuring AC susceptibility using a very low amplitude of the AC field (<1 mG) it is shown that underdoped samples of La_(2-x)Sr_xCuO_4 (LASCO), are diamagnetic in a temperature region above T_c up to a temperature T^*. This behavior is…
Precise calorimetric measurements have been carried out in the 7 - 300 K temperature range on two ceramic samples of thulium 123 cuprates TmBa2Cu3O6.92 and TmBa2Cu3O6.70. The temperature dependence of the heat capacity was analyzed in the…
A commercially available calorimeter has been used to investigate the specific heat of a high-quality \kn\ single crystal. The addenda heat capacity of the calorimeter is determined in the temperature range $0.02 \, \mathrm{K} \leq T \leq…
Specific heat of phonon cavities is investigated in order to analyse the effect of phonon confinement on thermodynamic properties. The specific heat of free standing very thin SiN membranes in the low dimensional limit is measured down to…
We introduce a nanocalorimetric technique based on microsecond-pulsed heating (\mu s-PHnC) that enables high-sensitivity, quasi-isothermal heat capacity measurements on nanoscale samples. Such resolution is critical for exploring…
We have investigated the nonlinear THz 2D coherent spectroscopic response of superconducting La$_{2-x}$Sr$_x$CuO$_4$ (LSCO) thin films as a function of $T$ across a wide range of doping levels from mildly underdoped through extremely…
Investigations of dynamic and thermodynamic properties for a molecular crystal tris-hexafluoroacetylacetonate-iron $Fe(O_2C_5HF_6)_3$ are presented. Heat capacity $C_p(T)$ has been measured by adiabatic calorimetry method in the temperature…
We report the development of a technique to measure heat capacity at large uniaxial pressure using a piezoelectric-driven device generating compressive and tensile strain in the sample. Our setup is optimized for temperatures ranging from 8…
Cuprate HTSCs exhibit a dome-shaped dependence of the superconducting transition temperature on the charge carrier concentration, Tc(p), with a maximum at p = 0.16. Near the composition p = 1/8, a dip in Tc is observed (the "1/8 anomaly"),…
A high resolution non-adiabatic method for measuring the heat capacity ($C_v$) of bulk samples of condensable gases in the range 7.5-70 K is described. In this method $C_v$ is evaluated by directly comparing the heating and cooling rates of…
A new method of absolute heat capacity measurement was developed in the Department of Biological Systems Physics at the E. Andronikashvili Institute of Physics, Georgian Academy of Sciences. This is the method of absolute heat capacity…
Heat capacity measurements with significantly improved resolution find the presence of a peak in a solid 4He sample in coexistence with liquid. With improved crystallinity, the peak decreases in height and moves to lower temperature. A…