2016年8月
Quadrupole-driven non-Fermi-liquid and magnetic-field-induced heavy fermion states in a non-Kramers doublet system
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
- 巻
- 94
- 号
- 7
- 開始ページ
- 075134
- 終了ページ
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 掲載種別
- 研究論文(学術雑誌)
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevB.94.075134
- 出版者・発行元
- AMER PHYSICAL SOC
Orbital degrees of freedom in condensed matter could play important roles in forming a variety of exotic electronic states by interacting with conduction electrons. In 4f-electron systems, because of strong intra-atomic spin-orbit coupling, an orbitally degenerate state inherently carries quadrupolar degrees of freedom. The present work has focused on a purely quadrupole-active system PrIr2Zn20 showing superconductivity in the presence of an antiferroquadrupole order at T-Q = 0.11 K. We observed non-Fermi-liquid (NFL) behaviors emerging in the electrical resistivity rho and the 4f contribution to the specific heat, C-4f, in the paramagnetic state at T > T-Q. Moreover, in magnetic fields B <= 6 T, all data sets of rho(T) and C-4f (T) are well scaled with characteristic temperatures T-0's. This observation of the NFL state in the nonmagnetic quadrupole-active system has an origin intrinsically different from that observed in the vicinity of the conventional quantum critical point. It implies possible formation of a quadrupole Kondo lattice resulting from hybridization between the quadrupoles and the conduction electrons with an energy scale of k(B)T(0). At T <= 0.13 K, rho(T) and C-4f (T) exhibit anomalies as B approaches 5 T. This is the manifestation of a field-induced crossover toward a Fermi-liquid ground state in the quadrupole Kondo lattice.
- リンク情報
- ID情報
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- DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevB.94.075134
- ISSN : 2469-9950
- eISSN : 2469-9969
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000381483100004