Ultrasound measurement technique for the single-turn-coil magnets

Ultrasound is a powerful means to study numerous phenomena of condensed-matter physics as acoustic waves couple strongly to structural, magnetic, orbital, and charge degrees of freedom. In this paper, we present such a technique combined with single-turn coils (STCs) that generate magnetic fields beyond 100 T with the typical pulse duration of 6 mu s. As a benchmark of this technique, the ultrasound results for MnCr2S4, Cu-6[Si6O18]center dot 6H(2)O, and liquid oxygen are shown. The resolution for the relative sound-velocity change in the STC is estimated as Delta v/v similar to 10(-3), which is sufficient to study various field-induced phase transitions and critical phenomena.