Non-Fermi-liquid nature and exotic thermoelectric power in the heavy-fermion superconductor UBe13

Autor: Alexandra Palacio-Morales, Georg Knebel, Alexandre Pourret, Yusei Shimizu, Dai Aoki
Přispěvatelé: Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Instrumentation, Material and Correlated Electrons Physics (IMAPEC), PHotonique, ELectronique et Ingénierie QuantiqueS (PHELIQS), Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire de Grenoble (IRIG), Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire de Grenoble (IRIG), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Tohoku University [Sendai], European Project: 258239,EC:FP7:ERC,ERC-2010-StG_20091028,NEWHEAVYFERMION(2010)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015)
Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015), 2015, 92 (24), pp.241101(R). ⟨10.1103/PhysRevB.92.241101⟩
Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015), American Physical Society, 2015, 92 (24), pp.241101(R). ⟨10.1103/PhysRevB.92.241101⟩
ISSN: 1098-0121
1550-235X
Popis: We report quite exotic thermoelectric power $S$ in ${\mathrm{UBe}}_{13}$. At 0 T, the negative $S/T$ continues to strongly enhance down to the superconducting transition temperature with no Fermi-liquid behavior. $|S/T|$ is dramatically suppressed and becomes rather modest with increasing field. We have also obtained precise field dependencies of (i) an anomaly in $S$ due to an exotic Kondo effect and (ii) a field-induced anomaly in $S/T$ associated with the anomalous upward ${H}_{\mathrm{c}2}(T)$. In contrast to the field-sensitive transport property, the normal-state specific heat is magnetically robust, indicating that the largeness of the $5f$ density of states remains in high fields. This unusual behavior in ${\mathrm{UBe}}_{13}$ can be explained by a considerable change in the energy derivative of the conduction-electron lifetime ${\ensuremath{\tau}}_{\mathrm{c}}(\ensuremath{\epsilon})$ at the Fermi level under magnetic fields.
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