1997/04/15 by Brett Ellman, Ellman, Brett, Mark Sutton +11
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Rare-earth and actinide compounds #Superconducting Materials and Applications #Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con) #cond-mat.supr-con
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/9704125
Latex file, 5 PS and EPS figures
arxiv created 1997/04/15 · openalex publication_date 1997/04/15 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Using synchrotron radiation-based Laue diffraction methods, we have searched for structural anomalies in a single-crystal whisker of the heavy fermion superconductor UPt3. Our data cover a large volume of k-space with high sensitivity. We find no signs of the structural modulations seen in transmission electron microscopy studies of whiskers grown under identical conditions. Our result has consequences for theories of symmetry-broken superconductivity in this material.