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Thermodynamics of CeAl2 at low temperatures: specific heat and spin-lattice relaxation rate

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Thermodynamic calculations, developed here, show that a considerable fraction of the observed low-temperature nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate and specific heat of CeAl2-both varying linearly with temperature-may be due to the existence of new low-frequency features in the spin-excitation spectrum of incommensurate magnetic structures.

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    Present address: Institut of Physics, CAV, Na Slovance 2, 180 42, Prague, Czech Republic

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  1. Laboratorium für Festkörperphysik, ETH-Hönggerberg, CH-8093, Zürich, Switzerland

    O. Hudák, J. L. Gavilano & H. R. Ott

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Hudák, O., Gavilano, J.L. & Ott, H.R. Thermodynamics of CeAl2 at low temperatures: specific heat and spin-lattice relaxation rate. Z. Phys. B - Condensed Matter 99, 587–591 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002570050080

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