論文

査読有り
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
  • T. Onimaru
  • K. Izawa
  • K. T. Matsumoto
  • T. Yoshida
  • Y. Machida
  • T. Ikeura
  • K. Wakiya
  • K. Umeo
  • S. Kittaka
  • K. Araki
  • T. Sakakibara
  • T. Takabatake
  • 全て表示

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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.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.94.075134
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000381483100004&DestApp=WOS_CPL
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevB.94.075134
  • ISSN : 2469-9950
  • eISSN : 2469-9969
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000381483100004

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