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CeCu_2Ge_2:对量子临界性的新认识

CeCu_2Ge_2: Challenging our Understanding of Quantum Criticality

B. Zeng, Q. R. Zhang, D. Rhodes, Y. Shimura, D. Watanabe, R. E. Baumbach, P. Schlottmann, T. Ebihara, L. Balicas

摘要:

在这里,我们揭示了CeCu_2Ge_2的量子相变的证据,它既显示出无公度自旋密度波(SDW)基态,由于近藤效应的准粒子有效质量(μ)的强重整化。对于外磁场(H)和晶体学c轴之间的所有角度θ,施加H导致通过在θ依赖的临界场H_p(θ)处的2阶相变抑制SDW态,导致在顺磁(PM)态中观察到小费米面(FS)。对H|| c轴上,这些FS的特征是光μ也指向H_p处的近藤效应的抑制,令人惊讶的是,没有量子临界性(QC)的实验证据。但是当$H$向a轴旋转时,这些μ值显著增加,当H和c轴之间的θ> 56 ^0时,这些μ值变得不可检测。在H_p^a~ 30 T附近,电阻率与T成正比,再加上μ的发散,表明在H_p^a(T=0 K)处存在场致QC点。这一观察结果表明,与SDW嵌套矢量相关的FS热点与当前的QC情景不一致,其中在H_p(θ,T)处所有相关能量标度的连续抑制应该导致H-θ平面中的量子临界点线。最后,我们指出CeCu_2Ge_2的磁相图的复杂性使其成为探索场致量子三临界和QC端点的理想体系。

英文摘要:

Here, we unveil evidence for a quantum phase-transition in CeCu_2Ge_2 which displays both an incommensurate spin-density wave (SDW) ground-state, and a strong renormalization of the quasiparticle effective masses (mu) due to the Kondo-effect. For all angles theta between an external magnetic field (H) and the crystallographic c-axis, the application of H leads to the suppression of the SDW-state through a 2^nd-order phase-transition at a theta-dependent critical-field H_p(theta) leading to the observation of small Fermi surfaces (FSs) in the paramagnetic (PM) state. For H || c-axis, these FSs are characterized by light mu's pointing also to the suppression of the Kondo-effect at H_p with surprisingly, no experimental evidence for quantum-criticality (QC). But as $H$ is rotated towards the a-axis, these mu's increase considerably becoming undetectable for θ> 56^0 between H and the c-axis. Around H_p^a~ 30 T the resistivity becomes proportional T which, coupled to the divergence of mu, indicates the existence of a field-induced QC-point at H_p^a(T=0 K). This observation, suggesting FS hot-spots associated with the SDW nesting-vector, is at odds with current QC scenarios for which the continuous suppression of all relevant energy scales at H_p(theta,T) should lead to a line of quantum-critical points in the H-theta plane. Finally, we show that the complexity of its magnetic phase-diagram(s) makes CeCu_2Ge_2 an ideal system to explore field-induced quantum tricritical and QC end-points.

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