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The precise measurements of the specific heat and the linear expansion coefficient of polygrain samples of the ordered icosahedral phase Al63Cu25Fe12 have been performed in the temperature range 1.8–400.0 K. The deviations from the Grüneisen law, according to which the temperature dependences of the lattice specific heat at constant volume and the linear expansion coefficient are identical to each other, have been analyzed. The proofs that the specific heat of the quasicrystals contains latent electronic and lattice contributions of the Schottky type have been obtained. The revealed contributions can be thermodynamic consequences of the fractal energy spectra.
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Original Russian Text © A.F. Prekul, E.V. Shalaeva, N.I. Shchegolikhina, 2010, published in Fizika Tverdogo Tela, 2010, Vol. 52, No. 9, pp. 1675–1680.
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Prekul, A.F., Shalaeva, E.V. & Shchegolikhina, N.I. Calorimetric investigation of electronic and lattice excitations of the icosahedral quasicrystal in the range of moderate temperatures. Phys. Solid State 52, 1797–1802 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063783410090027
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