We report on neutron scattering and muon spin relaxation measurements of dense Kondo lattice CePtZn. The system develops long-range incommensurate magnetic order as the temperature is reduced below TN = 1.75 K. Interestingly, a Q-independent gap at E = 0.65 meV in the energy spectrum is found to co-exist with the long-range magnetic order. The gap persists to a very high temperature of T 100 K. The Q-independent characteristic and its persistence to high temperature hint that the gapped excitation may be manifesting the excited state of the ground-state doublet of the crystal-field energy levels. However, the observed broadness in the linewidth with distinct temperature and field dependencies makes it a nontrivial phenomenon. Qualitative analysis of the experimental data suggests the possible co-existence of a local critical behavior, which is onset near the critical field of H 3 T, with the crystal-field excitation in the dynamic properties.
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Titolo: | Gapped excitation in dense Kondo lattice CePtZn |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2017 |
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Abstract: | We report on neutron scattering and muon spin relaxation measurements of dense Kondo lattice CePtZn. The system develops long-range incommensurate magnetic order as the temperature is reduced below TN = 1.75 K. Interestingly, a Q-independent gap at E = 0.65 meV in the energy spectrum is found to co-exist with the long-range magnetic order. The gap persists to a very high temperature of T 100 K. The Q-independent characteristic and its persistence to high temperature hint that the gapped excitation may be manifesting the excited state of the ground-state doublet of the crystal-field energy levels. However, the observed broadness in the linewidth with distinct temperature and field dependencies makes it a nontrivial phenomenon. Qualitative analysis of the experimental data suggests the possible co-existence of a local critical behavior, which is onset near the critical field of H 3 T, with the crystal-field excitation in the dynamic properties. |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11567/858230 |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 01.01 - Articolo su rivista |