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Thermal Magnetoconductivity of Tungsten Below 6 K: Combining the Zero-, Low- and High-Field Cases

Hills, MJ; Hepburn, ID; Bartlett, J; Hardy, G; (2014) Thermal Magnetoconductivity of Tungsten Below 6 K: Combining the Zero-, Low- and High-Field Cases. Journal of Low Temperature Physics , 178 (1-2) 18 - 34. 10.1007/s10909-014-1220-7. Green open access

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Abstract

We present a phenomenological expression to describe the thermal magnetoconductivity of tungsten which unifies the zero-field thermal conductivity with the low and high-field cases. Its basic form is derived from semi-classical magnetoresistance theory with fitting parameters allowing adjustment to particular samples. Thermal conductivity measurements at 5.5 K and in fields from 0 to 2 T are presented on two single crystals of tungsten with significantly different purities. We find that—with suitable adjustment of the fitting parameters—the equation is an excellent fit to the data in both cases. The significance of the fitting parameters and differences in their values are discussed, and we describe how they can be related to the individual properties of the samples. It is concluded that the equation should be applicable to any field below that at which orbit quantisation occurs and temperatures from 6 K down to tungsten’s superconducting transition.

Type: Article
Title: Thermal Magnetoconductivity of Tungsten Below 6 K: Combining the Zero-, Low- and High-Field Cases
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/s10909-014-1220-7
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10909-014-1220-7
Additional information: © The Author(s) 2014. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited.
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Space and Climate Physics
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1449510
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