Abstract

We present the temperature and magnetic-field dependence of the electrical resistivity (ρ(T,B)) in the mK temperature range used as a diagnostic tool for the superconductivity of U-Pt alloys prepared by splat-cooling technique. In most of the investigated alloys, a single resistivity drop was observed at the superconducting transition. For splat-cooled U0.85Pt0.15 (U-15at% Pt) alloys, two drops were revealed around 0.6K and 1K tentatively attributed to the superconducting phase transitions of the γ-U phase and α-U phase. The ρ(T,B) characteristics were found to depend on the cooling rate. The superconductivity is characterized by very high upper critical fields, reaching 4.5T in the 0K limit.

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