The mechanical relaxation study of polycrystalline MgCNi3

Details The mechanical relaxation study of polycrystalline MgCNi3 The mechanical relaxation study of polycrystalline MgCNi3

2003-02-18

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0302350v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

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Scientific paper

10.1088/0953-2048/17/4/007

The mechanical relaxation spectra of a superconducting and a non-superconducting MgCNi3 samples were measured from liquid nitrogen temperature to room temperature at frequency of kilohertz. There are two internal friction peaks (at 300 K labeled as P1 and 125 K as P2) for the superconducting sample. For the non-superconducting one, the position of P1 shifts to 250 K, while P2 is almost completely depressed. It is found that the peak position of P2 shifts towards higher temperature under higher measuring frequency. The calculated activation energy is 0.13eV. We propose an explanation relating P2 to the carbon atom jumping among the off-center positions. And further we expect that the behaviors of carbon atoms maybe correspond to the normal state crossovers around 150 K and 50 K observed by many other experiments.

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