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Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy for Irregularly Shaped Samples and Its Application to Uranium Ditelluride

Author

Gregorio Simarro
Avi Shragai
Gael Grissonnanche
Ian Hayes
Shanta Saha
Tatsuya Shishidou
Taishi Chen
Satoru Nakatsuji
Sheng Ran
Michael Weinert
Nicholas Butch
Johnpierre Paglione
B. Ramshaw

Abstract

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.

Date Published

Journal

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Volume

132

Issue

6

Number of Pages

066003+

URL

https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.066003

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.066003

Group (Lab)

Brad Ramshaw Group

Funding Source

DE-SC0020143
S10OD012287
DMR-1719875
DE-SC-0019154
GBMF9071

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