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J Phys Condens Matter. 2016 Mar 16;28(10):105601. doi: 10.1088/0953-8984/28/10/105601. Epub 2016 Feb 15.

High pressure effects on U L3 x-ray absorption in partial fluorescence yield mode and single crystal x-ray diffraction in the heavy fermion compound UCd11.

Journal of physics. Condensed matter : an Institute of Physics journal

Farzana Nasreen, Daniel Antonio, Derrick VanGennep, Corwin H Booth, Karunakar Kothapalli, Eric D Bauer, John L Sarrao, Barbara Lavina, Valentin Iota-Herbei, Stanislav Sinogeikin, Paul Chow, Yuming Xiao, Yusheng Zhao, Andrew L Cornelius

Affiliations

  1. High Pressure Science and Engineering Center (HiPSEC) and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154, USA.

PMID: 26877538 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/28/10/105601

Abstract

We report a study of high pressure x-ray absorption (XAS) performed in the partial fluorescence yield mode (PFY) at the U L3 edge (0–28.2 GPa) and single crystal x-ray diffraction (SXD) (0–20 GPa) on the UCd11 heavy fermion compound at room temperature. Under compression, the PFY-XAS results show that the white line is shifted by +4.1(3) eV at the highest applied pressure of 28.2 GPa indicating delocalization of the 5f electrons. The increase in full width at half maxima and decrease in relative amplitude of the white line with respect to the edge jump point towards 6d band broadening under high pressure. A bulk modulus of K0 = 62(1) GPa and its pressure derivative, K0 = 4.9(2) was determined from high pressure SXD results. Both the PFY-XAS and diffraction results do not show any sign of a structural phase transition in the applied pressure range.

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