Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy for Irregularly Shaped Samples and Its Application to Uranium Ditelluride

Florian Theuss; Gregorio de la Fuente Simarro; Avi Shragai; Gael Grissonnanche; Ian M Hayes; Shanta Saha; Tatsuya Shishidou; Taishi Chen; Satoru Nakatsuji; Sheng Ran; Michael Weinert; Nicholas P Butch; Johnpierre Paglione; B J Ramshaw

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.066003

Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy for Irregularly Shaped Samples and Its Application to Uranium Ditelluride

Phys Rev Lett. 2024 Feb 9;132(6):066003. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.066003.

Authors

Florian Theuss¹, Gregorio de la Fuente Simarro¹, Avi Shragai¹, Gael Grissonnanche¹, Ian M Hayes², Shanta Saha², Tatsuya Shishidou³, Taishi Chen⁴, Satoru Nakatsuji^{4

5

6

7}, Sheng Ran⁸, Michael Weinert³, Nicholas P Butch^{2

9}, Johnpierre Paglione^{2

10}, B J Ramshaw^{1

10}

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.
² Quantum Materials Center, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
³ Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA.
⁴ The Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan.
⁵ Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
⁶ Institute for Quantum Matter and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.
⁷ Trans-scale Quantum Science Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
⁸ Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA.
⁹ NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA.
¹⁰ Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

PMID: 38394590
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.066003

Abstract

Resonant ultrasound spectroscopy (RUS) is a powerful technique for measuring the full elastic tensor of a given material in a single experiment. Previously, this technique was practically limited to regularly shaped samples such as rectangular parallelepipeds, spheres, and cylinders [W. M. Visscher et al. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 90, 2154 (1991)JASMAN0001-496610.1121/1.401643]. We demonstrate a new method for determining the elastic moduli of irregularly shaped samples, extending the applicability of RUS to a much larger set of materials. We apply this new approach to the recently discovered unconventional superconductor UTe_{2} and provide its elastic tensor at both 300 and 4 kelvin.