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Tokiwa, Yoshifumi; Opletal, P.; Sakai, Hironori; Kambe, Shinsaku; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Kimata, Motoi*; Awaji, Satoshi*; Sasaki, Takahiko*; Aoki, Dai*; Haga, Yoshinori; et al.
Physical Review B, 109(14), p.L140502_1 - L140502_6, 2024/04
Times Cited Count:3 Percentile:67.57(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)The normal-conducting state of the superconductor UTe is studied by entropy analysis for magnetic fields along the
-axis, obtained from magnetization using the relation
. We observe a strong increase in entropy with magnetic field due to metamagnetic fluctuations (spatially uniform,
). The field dependence is well described by the Hertz-Millis-Moriya theory for quantum criticality of itinerant metamagnetism. Notably, the lower bound of the quantum-critical region coincides well with the position of the minimum in the superconducting transition temperature
. Hence, our results suggest that
fluctuations reinforce the superconductivity.
Kawasaki, Ikuto; Takeuchi, Kazuharu*; Fujimori, Shinichi; Takeda, Yukiharu; Yamagami, Hiroshi; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Haga, Yoshinori
Physical Review B, 108(16), p.165127_1 - 165127_9, 2023/10
Times Cited Count:0 Percentile:0.00(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)Tokiwa, Yoshifumi; Sakai, Hironori; Kambe, Shinsaku; Opletal, P.; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Kimata, Motoi*; Awaji, Satoshi*; Sasaki, Takahiko*; Yanase, Yoichi*; Haga, Yoshinori; et al.
Physical Review B, 108(14), p.144502_1 - 144502_5, 2023/10
Times Cited Count:5 Percentile:57.35(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)The vortex dynamics in the spin-triplet superconductor, UTe, are studied by measuring the DC electrical resistivity with currents along the
-axis under magnetic fields along the
-axis. Surprisingly, we have discovered an island region of low critical current deep inside the superconducting (SC) state, well below the SC upper critical field, attributed to a weakening of vortex pinning. Notably, this region coincides with the recently proposed intermediate-field SC state. We discuss the possibility of nonsingular vortices in the intermediate state, where SC order parameter does not vanish entirely in the vortex cores due to the mixing of multiple SC components.
Takeda, Yukiharu; Pospil, J.*; Yamagami, Hiroshi; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Haga, Yoshinori
Physical Review B, 108(8), p.085129_1 - 085129_10, 2023/08
Times Cited Count:0 Percentile:0.00(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)Opletal, P.; Sakai, Hironori; Haga, Yoshinori; Tokiwa, Yoshifumi; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Kambe, Shinsaku; Tokunaga, Yo
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 92(3), p.034704_1 - 034704_5, 2023/03
Times Cited Count:1 Percentile:27.58(Physics, Multidisciplinary)We investigate the physical properties of a single crystal of uranium telluride UTe
. We have confirmed that U
Te
crystallizes in the hexagonal structure with three nonequivalent crystallographic uranium sites. The paramagnetic moments are estimated to be approximately 1
per the uranium site, assuming a uniform moment on all the sites. A ferromagnetic phase transition occurs at
= 48 K, where the in-plane magnetization increases sharply, whereas the out of-plane component does not increase significantly. With decreasing temperature further below
under field-cooling conditions, the out-of-plane component increases rapidly around T
= 26 K. In contrast, the in-plane component hardly changes at T
. Specific heat measurement indicates no
-type anomaly around T
, so this is a cross-over suggesting a reorientation of the ordering moments or successive magnetic ordering on the part of the multiple uranium sites.
Sakai, Hironori; Opletal, P.; Tokiwa, Yoshifumi; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Tokunaga, Yo; Kambe, Shinsaku; Haga, Yoshinori
Physical Review Materials (Internet), 6(7), p.073401_1 - 073401_10, 2022/07
Times Cited Count:43 Percentile:94.62(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)The molten salt flux method is applied as a new synthetic route for the single crystals of the spin-triplet superconductor UTe. The single crystals under an optimized growth condition with excess uranium exhibit a superconducting transition at
K, which is the highest
reported for this compound. The obtained crystals show a remarkably large residual resistivity ratio with respect to the room temperature value and a small residual electronic contribution in specific heat well below
. These results indicate that the increase of
in UTe
can be achieved by reducing the disorder associated with uranium vacancies. The excess uranium in the molten salt acts as a reducing agent, preventing tetravalent uranium from becoming pentavalent and suppressing creation of uranium vacancies. At the same time, the relatively low growth temperature can suppress Te volatilization.
Haga, Yoshinori; Opletal, P.; Tokiwa, Yoshifumi; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Tokunaga, Yo; Kambe, Shinsaku; Sakai, Hironori
Journal of Physics; Condensed Matter, 34(17), p.175601_1 - 175601_7, 2022/04
Times Cited Count:25 Percentile:85.24(Physics, Condensed Matter)Fukasawa, Tsuyoshi*; Somaki, Takahiro*; Miyagawa, Takayuki*; Uchita, Masato*; Yamamoto, Tomohiko; Ishizuka, Futoshi*; Suzuno, Tetsuji*; Okamura, Shigeki*; Fujita, Satoshi*
Kozo Kogaku Rombunshu, B, 68B, p.462 - 475, 2022/04
Fujimori, Shinichi; Takeda, Yukiharu; Yamagami, Hiroshi; Pospil, J.*; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Haga, Yoshinori
Physical Review B, 105(11), p.115128_1 - 115128_6, 2022/03
Times Cited Count:1 Percentile:8.43(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)Matsumoto, Yuji*; Haga, Yoshinori; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Takeuchi, Tetsuya*; Miyake, Atsushi*; Tokunaga, Masashi*
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 90(7), p.074707_1 - 074707_6, 2021/07
Times Cited Count:1 Percentile:12.51(Physics, Multidisciplinary)Noma, Yuichiro*; Kotegawa, Hisashi*; Kubo, Tetsuro*; To, Hideki*; Harima, Hisatomo*; Haga, Yoshinori; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Onuki, Yoshichika*; Ito, Kohei*; Nakamura, Ai*; et al.
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 90(7), p.073707_1 - 073707_5, 2021/07
Times Cited Count:1 Percentile:12.51(Physics, Multidisciplinary)Fujimori, Shinichi; Takeda, Yukiharu; Yamagami, Hiroshi; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Haga, Yoshinori
Electronic Structure (Internet), 3(2), p.024008_1 - 024008_8, 2021/06
Pospil, J.*; Haga, Yoshinori; Miyake, Atsushi*; Kambe, Shinsaku; Tokunaga, Yo; Tokunaga, Masashi*; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Proschek, P.*; Voln
, J.*; Sechovsk
, V.*
Physical Review B, 102(2), p.024442_1 - 024442_13, 2020/07
Times Cited Count:7 Percentile:36.60(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)Metoki, Naoto; Aczel, A. A.*; Aoki, Dai*; Chi, S.*; Fernandez-Baca, J. A.*; Griveau, J.-C.*; Hagihara, Masato*; Hong, T.*; Haga, Yoshinori; Ikeuchi, Kazuhiko*; et al.
JPS Conference Proceedings (Internet), 30, p.011123_1 - 011123_6, 2020/03
Rare earths (4) and actinides (5
) provide variety of interesting states realized with competing interactions between the increasing number of
electrons. Since crystal field splitting of many-body
electron system is smaller than the bandwidth, (1) high resolution experiments are needed, (2) essentially no clear spectrum with well defined peaks is expected in itinerant Ce and U compounds, and (3) Np and Pu is strictly regulated. Therefore, systematic research on magnetic excitations by neutron scattering experiments of localized compounds and rare earth iso-structural reference is useful. We describe the
electron states of heavy electron compounds NpPd
Al
and actinide and rare earth based iso-structural family.
Haga, Yoshinori; Sugai, Takashi*; Matsumoto, Yuji*; Yamamoto, Etsuji
JPS Conference Proceedings (Internet), 29, p.013003_1 - 013003_5, 2020/02
Aoyama, Taisuke*; Kotegawa, Hisashi*; To, Hideki*; Kimura, Noriaki*; Haga, Yoshinori; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Onuki, Yoshichika*
Physica B; Condensed Matter, 570, p.349 - 351, 2019/10
Times Cited Count:0 Percentile:0.00(Physics, Condensed Matter)Tateiwa, Naoyuki; Haga, Yoshinori; Sakai, Hironori; Yamamoto, Etsuji
Physical Review B, 100(6), p.064413_1 - 064413_7, 2019/08
Times Cited Count:3 Percentile:13.77(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)We report the novel critical behavior of magnetization in low carrier concentration systems UTeS and USeS that exhibit the large negative magnetoresistance around the ferromagnetic transition temperatures
85 and 23 K, respectively. We determine the critical exponents,
for the spontaneous magnetization
,
for the magnetic susceptibility
, and
for the magnetization isotherm at
with several analytical methods. The ferromagnetic states in UTeS and USeS have strong uniaxial magnetic anisotropy. However, the critical exponents in the two compounds are different from those in the three-dimensional Ising system. Similar exponents have been reported for the uranium ferromagnetic superconductors UGe
and URhGe. An important finding is that the novel critical phenomenon appears regardless of the charge carrier density or the degree of the itinerancy of the
electrons.
Aoyama, Taisuke*; Kotegawa, Hisashi*; Kimura, Noriaki*; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Haga, Yoshinori; Onuki, Yoshichika*; To, Hideki*
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 88(6), p.064706_1 - 064706_7, 2019/06
Times Cited Count:1 Percentile:10.25(Physics, Multidisciplinary)Koizumi, Akihisa*; Kubo, Yasunori*; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Haga, Yoshinori; Sakurai, Yoshiharu*
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 88(3), p.034714_1 - 034714_6, 2019/03
Times Cited Count:2 Percentile:18.77(Physics, Multidisciplinary)Tateiwa, Naoyuki; Haga, Yoshinori; Yamamoto, Etsuji
Physical Review B, 99(9), p.094417_1 - 094417_12, 2019/03
Times Cited Count:7 Percentile:32.66(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)We study the critical behavior of dc magnetization in the uranium ferromagnet URhSi around the ferromagnetic phase transition at 10 K. The critical exponent
for the spontaneous magnetization below
,
for the magnetic susceptibility, and
for the magnetic isotherm at
have been determined as
= 0.300
0.002,
= 1.00
0.02, and
= 4.32
0.04 by the scaling analysis and the critical isotherm analysis. Magnetization has strong uniaxial magnetic anisotropy in the ferromagnetic state of URhSi. However, the universality class of the critical phenomenon does not belong to the 3D Ising system (
= 0.325,
= 1.241, and
= 4.82). The obtained exponents in URhSi are similar to those in uranium ferromagnetic superconductors UGe
and URhGe. We discuss the static and dynamical magnetic properties of URhSi in comparison with those in UGe
, URhGe and UCoGe.