Spontaneous strain due to ferroquadrupolar ordering in UCu$_2$Sn

Details Spontaneous strain due to ferroquadrupolar ordering in UCu$_2$Sn Spontaneous strain due to ferroquadrupolar ordering in UCu$_2$Sn

2003-06-24

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0306591v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

4 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.68.144413

The ternary uranium compound UCu$_2$Sn with a hexagonal ZrPt$_2$Al-type structure shows a phase transition at 16 K. We reported previously that huge lattice-softening is accompanied by the phase transition, which originates from ferroquadrupolar ordering of the ground state non-Kramers doublet $\Gamma_5$. A macroscopic strain, which is expected to emerge spontaneously, was not detected by powder X-ray diffraction in the temperature range between 4.2 and 300 K. To search the spontaneous strain, we have carried out thermal expansion measurements on a single-crystalline sample along the $a$, $b$ and $c$ axes using a capacitance technique with the resolution of $10^{-8}$. In the present experiment, we found the spontaneous $e_{xx} - e_{yy}$ strain which couples to the ground state doublet $\Gamma_5$. The effect of uniaxial pressure along the $a$, $b$ and $c$ axes on the transition temperature is also discussed.

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