Pressure Effects on Rattling and Superconductivity in the Einstein Solids

Abstract

Pressure effects on the rattling and superconductivity in the Einstein solids; AxV2Al20 (Ax = Ga0.2, Al0.3, and Y) are investigated by means of electrical resistivity measurements under high pressure. We observed bumps in resistivity at low temperatures only for Ga0.2 and Al0.3, which can be explained by scattering of conduction electrons by local phonons with Einstein temperatures of 8.5 and 22 K, respectively. The bumps gradually fade out with increasing pressure, and the temperature variations of resistivity for Ga0.2 and Al0.3 approach those of Y. This indicates that the low-energy local phonons in the Ga and Al compounds disappear at high pressures. We also observed \(T^{2}\) behavior with large \(A\) coefficients in the low-temperature limit for Ga and Al compounds, but not for Y. With increasing pressure, the \(A\) coefficient is largely suppressed, while \(H_{\text{c2}}' \equiv |\mathrm{d}H_{\text{c2}}/\mathrm{d}T|_{T_{\text{c}}}\) that also reflects the density of states at Fermi energy decreases...