Specific Heat of (Ca1-xSrx)3Ru2O7 Single Crystals

Details Specific Heat of (Ca1-xSrx)3Ru2O7 Single Crystals Specific Heat of (Ca1-xSrx)3Ru2O7 Single Crystals

2006-11-09

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0611248v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

17 pages, including 5 figures. submitted to Solid State commun

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We have measured the specific heat of crystals of (Ca1-xSrx)3Ru2O7 using ac- and relaxation-time calorimetry. Special emphasis was placed on the characterization of the Neel (TN=56 K) and structural (Tc = 48 K) phase transitions in the pure, x=0 material. While the latter is believed to be first order, detailed measurements under different experimental conditions suggest that all the latent heat (with L ~ 0.3 R) is being captured in a broadened peak in the effective heat capacity. The specific heat has a mean-field-like step at TN, but its magntitude (Delta cP ~ R) is too large to be associated with a conventional itinerant electron (e.g. spin-density-wave) antiferromagnetic transition, while its entropy is too small to be associated with full ordering of localized spins. The TN transition broadens with Sr substitution while its magnitude decreases slowly. On the other hand, the entropy change associated with the Tc transition decreases rapidly with Sr substitution and is not observable for our x=0.58 sample.

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