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Thermal Expansion in YbGaGe

Svilen Bobev, Darrick J. Williams, J. D. Thompson, J. L. Sarrao

cond-mat.str-elarXiv:cond-mat/0405063

Abstract

Thermal expansion and magnetic susceptibility measurements as a function of temperature are reported for YbGaGe. Despite the fact that this material has been claimed to show zero thermal expansion over a wide temperature range, we observe thermal expansion typical of metals and Pauli paramagnetic behavior, which perhaps indicates strong sample dependence in this system.

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