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Peer-reviewed
Oct, 2002

Exotic heavy-fermion state in the filled skutterudite PrFe4P12 uncovered by the de Haas-van Alphen effect

PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • H Sugawara
  • ,
  • TD Matsuda
  • ,
  • K Abe
  • ,
  • Y Aoki
  • ,
  • H Sato
  • ,
  • S Nojiri
  • ,
  • Y Inada
  • ,
  • R Settai
  • ,
  • Y Onuki

Volume
66
Number
13
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.66.134411
Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC

We report the de Haas-van Alphen (dHvA) experiment on the filled skutterudite PrFe4P12 exhibiting apparent Kondo-like behaviors in the transport and thermal properties. We have found enormously enhanced cyclotron effective mass m(c)(*)=81 m(0) in the high field phase, which indicates that PrFe4P12 is the first Pr compound in which really heavy mass has been unambiguously confirmed. Also in the low field nonmagnetic ordered phase (LOP), we observed the dHvA branch with m(c)(*)=10 m(0) that is quite heavy taking into account its small Fermi surface volume (0.15% of the Brillouin zone size). The insensitivity of mass in LOP against the magnetic field suggests that the quadrupolar interaction plays a main role both in the mass renormalization and the LOP formation.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.66.134411
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000179067900076&DestApp=WOS_CPL
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  • DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevB.66.134411
  • ISSN : 2469-9950
  • eISSN : 2469-9969
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000179067900076

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