Excess heat capacity in magnetically ordered Ce heavy-fermion metals

Scheie, Allen Olaf; Liu, Yu; Ghioldi, E. A.; Fender, Shannon; Rosa, Priscila F. S.; Bauer, Eric Dietzgen; Zhu, Jian-Xin; Ronning, Filip

doi:10.1103/physrevb.110.085123

Excess heat capacity in magnetically ordered Ce heavy-fermion metals

Journal Article · Fri Aug 09 00:00:00 EDT 2024 · Physical Review. B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.110.085123· OSTI ID:2433949

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Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)

Herein we study the magnetic heat capacity of a series of magnetically ordered Ce-based heavy-fermion materials, which show an anomalous T³ heat capacity in excess of the phonon contribution in many materials. For compounds for which magnon models have been worked out, we show that the local-moment magnon heat capacity derived from the measured magnon spectra underestimates the experimental specific heat. The excess heat capacity reveals increasing density of states with increasing energy, akin to a pseudogap. We show that this anomalous temperature-dependent term is not associated with proximity to a quantum critical point, but is strongly correlated with T_N, indicating the anomalous excitations are governed by the magnetic exchange interaction. This insight may hold key information for understanding magnetically ordered heavy fermions.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division (MSE)

Grant/Contract Number:: 89233218CNA000001

OSTI ID:: 2433949

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 2474096

Report Number(s):: LA-UR--24-20553

Journal Information:: Physical Review. B, Journal Name: Physical Review. B Journal Issue: 8 Vol. 110; ISSN 2469-9950

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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