Pressure and magnetic field effects in heavy-fermion UCu$_{3.5}$Al$_{1.5}$

ORAL

Abstract

UCu$_{3.5}$Al$_{1.5}$ is a heavy-fermion compound which crystallizes in the hexagonal CaCu$_{5}$ structure, and it was reported to exhibit non-Fermi-liquid scaling at low temperatures. We report on the measurements of the electrical resistivity and magnetoresistance as a function of temperature (2-150 K), pressure (0-10kbar) and applied magnetic field (0-18T). The results provide evidence that, for UCu$_{3.5}$Al$_{1.5}$, application of pressure and/or magnetic field tends to suppress non-Fermi-liquid scaling and a tendency toward long-range magnetic correlations is observed for temperatures below 20 K, although there is no clear evidence of long-range order in the available pressure and field range.

Authors

  • Farzana Nasreen

    New Mexico State University

  • Karunakar Kothapalli

    New Mexico State University

  • Heinz Nakotte

    New Mexico State University

  • Abdel Alsmadi

    The Hashemite University

  • Vivien Zapf

    NHMFL, Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Frederik Fabris

    NHMFL, Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Alex Lacerda

    NHMFL, Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Jiri Kamarad

    Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic