Reply to "Comment on 'Shape of the upper-critical-field curves in URu2Si2: Evidence for anisotropic pairing"

Robert Joynt, W. K. Kwok, G. W. Crabtree, D. G. Hinks, L. DeLong

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Abstract

We present an alternate interpretation to the comments by P. Thalmeier [preceding paper, Phys. Rev. B 44, 7120 (1991)] based on the assumption that the antiferromagnetic transition is a secondary effect of some other phase transition at TN [C. M. Varma (unpublished); see also Palstra et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 55, 2727 (1985)]. This view is motivated by the observation that the ordered moment in URu2Si2 is very small (∼0.02μB) and similar to the ordered moment in UPt3, another heavy-fermion system, and yet the specific-heat anomaly is at least 2 orders of magnitude larger in URu2Si2 than in UPt3.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)7122
Number of pages1
JournalPhysical Review B
Volume44
Issue number13
DOIs
StatePublished - 1991

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Condensed Matter Physics

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