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Investigation of exotic electronic properties on rare-earth & actinide compounds under high pressure

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We have synthesized and investigated electronic properties of several non-centrosymmetric actinide compounds, which do not have an inversion center in the crystal structure “globally” or “locally”, under high pressure. The Néel temperature of an antiferromagnet UIrSi3 with “globally” non-centrosymmetric structure increases with increasing pressure at a rate of 2.5 K/GPa up to 5 GPa. On the other hand, TNs of U2Rh3Si5 and U2Ir3Si5, which are “locally” non-centrosymmetric compounds, decrease with -1 K/GPa and -0.5 K/GPa with increasing pressure, respectively. Here, U2Ir3Si5 is a new antiferromagnet crystallizing in the U2Co3Si5-type of orthorhombic structure. Below TN = 36.5 K, U2Ir3Si5 shows magnetic order-order transition at T0 = 26.1 K with a first-order nature. Electrical resistivity in U2Ir3Si5 shows semiconducting-like behavior due to the formation of the super-zone gap in the antiferromagnetic state. TN and T0 as well as semi-conducting-like behavior in resistivity are suppressed by external pressure.

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    Fuminori Honda, Dexin Li, Yoshiya Homma, Ai Nakamura & Dai Aoki

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Honda, F., Li, D., Okauchi, K. et al. Investigation of exotic electronic properties on rare-earth & actinide compounds under high pressure. MRS Advances 1, 2975–2986 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1557/adv.2016.373

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