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Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy for Irregularly Shaped Samples and Its Application to Uranium Ditelluride

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Florian Theuss, Gregorio de la Fuente Simarro, Avi Shragai, Gael Grissonnanche, Ian Hayes, Shanta Saha, Tatsuya Shishidou, Taishi Chen, Satoru Nakatsuji, Sheng Ran, Michael Weinert, Nicholas Butch, Johnpierre Paglione, B. Ramshaw

Abstract

Resonant ultrasound spectroscopy (RUS) is a powerful technique for measuring the full elastic tensor of a given material in a single experiment. Previously, this technique was limited to regularly-shaped samples such as rectangular parallelepipeds, spheres, and cylinders [1]. We demonstrate a new method for determining the elastic moduli of irregularly-shaped samples, extending the applicability of RUS to a much larger set of materials. We apply this new approach to the recently-discovered unconventional superconductor UTe2 and provide its elastic tensor at both 300 and 4 kelvin.
Citation
Physical Review Letters
Volume
132
Issue
6
Pub Type
Journals

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https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.132.066003
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Keywords

ultrasound, spin triplet superconductivity, heavy fermion
Condensed matter

Citation

Theuss, F. , de la Fuente Simarro, G. , Shragai, A. , Grissonnanche, G. , Hayes, I. , Saha, S. , Shishidou, T. , Chen, T. , Nakatsuji, S. , Ran, S. , Weinert, M. , Butch, N. , Paglione, J. and Ramshaw, B. (2024), Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy for Irregularly Shaped Samples and Its Application to Uranium Ditelluride, Physical Review Letters, [online], https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.132.066003, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=936496 (Accessed October 28, 2025)

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Created February 9, 2024, Updated November 25, 2024
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