Ultrasonic Investigation of Novel Superconducting Systems

Abstract

Ultrasonic attenuation measurements are reported for the superconducting, normal, and mixed states of the heavy fermion superconductors UPt3 and URu2Si2 and in the alloys of the ternary superconductors Er1-xHoxRh4B4. A peak in attenuation in the mixed state of UPt3 may be indicative of collective excitations of the flux line lattice. A broad max. in attenuation is found below the superconducting transition temp. of URu2Si2. An increase in attenuation in the superconducting phase of the reentrant ternary superconductors with x = 0.6 and 0.813 is ascribed to increased spin phonon interaction induced by superconducting screening of cryst. elec. fields. [on SciFinder(R)]