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Title: Impurities near an antiferromagnetic-singlet quantum critical point

Journal Article · · Physical Review B
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  1. Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Inst. of Physics; Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics
  2. Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Inst. of Physics
  3. Univ. of Cote d'Azur (France); CNRS-UNS-NUS-NTU International Joint Research Unit (Singapore). Majulab; National Univ. of Singapore (Singapore). Centre for Quantum Technologies
  4. Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics

Heavy-fermion systems and other strongly correlated electron materials often exhibit a competition between antiferromagnetic (AF) and singlet ground states. We examine the effect of impurities in the vicinity of such an AF-singlet quantum critical point (QCP), through an appropriately defined “impurity susceptibility” χimp, using exact quantum Monte Carlo simulations. Our key finding is a connection within a single calculational framework between AF domains induced on the singlet side of the transition and the behavior of the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxation rate 1/T1. Furthermore, we show that local NMR measurements provide a diagnostic for the location of the QCP, which agrees remarkably well with the vanishing of the AF order parameter and large values of χimp.

Research Organization:
Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
Grant/Contract Number:
NA0001842; NA0002908
OSTI ID:
1344106
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1344004
Journal Information:
Physical Review B, Vol. 95, Issue 5; ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 6 works
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