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Pressure-Induced Superconductivity in Elemental Ytterbium Metal

Pressure-Induced Superconductivity in Elemental Ytterbium Metal

Ytterbium (Yb) metal is divalent and nonmagnetic but would be expected under sufficient pressure to become trivalent and magnetic. We have carried out electrical resistivity and ac magnetic susceptibility measurements on Yb to pressures as high as 179 GPa over the temperature range 1.4 - 295 K. No evidence for …