μSR and NMR in f-electron non-Fermi liquid materials

被引:10
作者
MacLaughlin, DE [1 ]
Rose, MS
Young, BL
Bernal, OO
Heffner, RH
Morris, GD
Ishida, K
Nieuwenhuys, GJ
Sonier, JE
机构
[1] Univ Calif Riverside, Dept Phys, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
[2] Calif State Univ Los Angeles, Dept Phys & Astron, Los Angeles, CA 90032 USA
[3] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
[4] Osaka Univ, Grad Sch Engn Sci, Dept Phys Sci, Toyonaka, Osaka 5608531, Japan
[5] Leiden Univ, Kamerlingh Onnes Lab, NL-2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands
[6] Simon Fraser Univ, Dept Phys, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
non-Fermi liquids; disorder-driven mechanisms; quantum critical points; CePtSi1-xGex;
D O I
10.1016/S0921-4526(02)01637-X
中图分类号
O469 [凝聚态物理学];
学科分类号
070205 ;
摘要
Magnetic resonance (muSR and NMR) studies of f-electron non-Fermi-liquid (NFL) materials give clear evidence that structural disorder is a major factor in NFL behavior. Longitudinal-field muSR relaxation measurements at low fields reveal a wide distribution of muon relaxation rates and divergences in the frequency dependence of spin correlation functions in the NFL systems UCu5-xPdx and CePtSi1-xGex. These divergences seem to be due to slow dynamics associated with quantum spin-glass behavior, rather than quantum criticality as in a uniform system, for two reasons: the observed strong inhomogeneity in the muon relaxation rate, and the strong and frequency-dependent low-frequency fluctuation observed in U(Cu,Pd)(5) and CePt(Si,Ge). In the NFL materials CeCu5.9Au0.1, Ce(Ru0.5Rh0.5)(2)Si-2, CeNi2Ge2, and YbRh2Si2 the low-frequency weight of the spin fluctuation spectrum is much weaker than in the disordered NFL systems. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:381 / 386
页数:6
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