Abstract
We present measurements of longitudinal ultrasonic velocity on single crystals of the heavy-fermion superconductor . The measurements show clear signatures of second-order phase transitions in the superconducting state, with the velocity anomalies well accounted for by Ginzburg-Landau theory. From these signatures we construct a phase diagram for that reveals all the boundary lines that have been identified as possible phase transitions. We are able to track the phase transition lines to a tetracritical point, located on the upper-critical-field curve, to within the width of the normal-superconducting transition.
- Received 27 July 1990
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.65.2298
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