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带隙巡游自旋激发解释了URu $_2$ Si $_2$的隐序态中的熵丢失

Gapped itinerant spin excitations account for missing entropy in the hidden order state of URu$_2$Si$_2$

C. R. Wiebe, J. A. Janik, G. J. Macdougall, G. M. Luke, J. D. Garrett, H. D. Zhou, Y. -J. Jo, L. Balicas, Y. Qiu, J. R. D. Copley, Z. Yamani, W. J. L. Buyers

摘要:

现代凝聚态物理的主要目标之一是阐明各种电子系统中基态的性质。许多相关电子材料,如高温超导体、几何阻挫氧化物和低维磁体,由于对多体效应的认识不足而产生的独特性质,至今仍是富有成果的研究对象。重费米子金属--由于这些效应而具有高有效电子质量的材料--代表了一类具有奇异性质的材料,例如不寻常的磁性,非常规的超导性和“隐藏的顺序”参数。重费米子超导体URu 2Si 2在过去的二十年里一直受到物理学家的关注,因为它在17.5 K以下存在一个“隐藏的秩序”相。中子散射测量表明,有序矩为0.03 $μ_{B}$,太小而不能解释17.5 K时的大热容异常。我们提出了最近的中子散射实验,揭开了这一难题的一个新的一块-自旋激发光谱高于17.5 K表现出良好的相关性,巡回式自旋激发高达至少10毫电子伏的无公度波矢量发出。这些激发的间隙对应于大的熵释放,并解释了通过过渡的电子比热的减少。

英文摘要:

One of the primary goals of modern condensed matter physics is to elucidate the nature of the ground state in various electronic systems. Many correlated electron materials, such as high temperature superconductors, geometrically frustrated oxides, and low-dimensional magnets are still the objects of fruitful study because of the unique properties which arise due to poorly understood many-body effects. Heavy fermion metals - materials which have high effective electron masses due to these effects - represent a class of materials with exotic properties, such as unusual magnetism, unconventional superconductivity, and "hidden order" parameters. The heavy fermion superconductor URu2Si2 has held the attention of physicists for the last two decades due to the presence of a "hidden order" phase below 17.5 K. Neutron scattering measurements indicate that the ordered moment is 0.03 $μ_{B}$, much too small to account for the large heat capacity anomaly at 17.5 K. We present recent neutron scattering experiments which unveil a new piece of this puzzle - the spin excitation spectrum above 17.5 K exhibits well-correlated, itinerant-like spin excitations up to at least 10 meV emanating from incommensurate wavevectors. The gapping of these excitations corresponds to a large entropy release and explains the reduction in the electronic specific heat through the transition.

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