Jan, 2008
Rattling in Clathrate Compounds of ROs4Sb12 and R3Pd20Ge6
JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
- Volume
- 77
- Number
- First page
- 153
- Last page
- 158
- Language
- English
- Publishing type
- Research paper (scientific journal)
- DOI
- 10.1143/JPSJS.77SA.153
- Publisher
- PHYSICAL SOC JAPAN
We have performed ultrasonic experiments on clathrate compounds ROs4Sb12 and R3Pd20Ge6 to explore rattling and tunneling of a guest rattler's motion. We have found frequency dependence of the elastic constants and ultrasonic attenuations, which is called as ultrasonic dispersion, due to thermally activated rattling. At low temperatures, Curie-type elastic softening obeying 1/T with antiferro-type intersite interaction, which corresponds to quantum tunneling, appears and continues even to the lowest 20 mK in LaOs4Sb12 and La3Pd20Ge6. The understanding of the local charge fluctuation, rattling and tunneling, being coupled to conduction electrons in metals is a basic issue in the aspect of electron-phonon interaction in strongly correlated phenomena such as heavy fermion state, superconductivity and multi-channel Kondo screening effect.
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- DOI : 10.1143/JPSJS.77SA.153
- ISSN : 0031-9015
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000209384500026