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Title: Kondo disorder and non-Fermi-liquid behavior in UCu{sub 5{minus}{ital x}}Pd{sub {ital x}} and CeCu{sub 5.9}Au{sub 0.1}

Journal Article · · Physical Review, B: Condensed Matter
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  1. Department of Physics, University of California, Riverside, California 92521-0413 (United States)
  2. Institute for Particle Physics, Eidgenoessiche Technische Hochschule-Zuerich, CH-5232 Villigen PSI (Switzerland)
  3. Mail Stop K764, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)
  4. Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratorium, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, 2300 RA Leiden (The Netherlands)
  5. Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611 (United States)
  6. Physikalisches Institut, Universitaet Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe (Germany)
  7. Laboratorium fuer Festkoerperphysik, Eidgenoessiche Technische Hochschule-Hoenggerberg, CH-8903 Zuerich (Switzerland)

Muon spin rotation ({mu}SR) has been used to probe non-Fermi-liquid (NFL) behavior in the heavy-fermion alloys UCu{sub 5{minus}{ital x}}Pd{sub {ital x}}, {ital x}=1.0 and 1.5, and CeCu{sub 5.9}Au{sub 0.1}. Zero-field {mu}SR puts an upper bound of {approximately}0.01{mu}{sub {ital B}}/{ital U} atom on any static magnetism in UCu{sub 5{minus}{ital x}}Pd{sub {ital x}}, which is too weak to affect the transverse-field {mu}SR linewidth or to give rise to NFL behavior. In agreement with NMR results, {mu}SR spectra in transverse fields suggest that a broad distribution of Kondo temperatures ({open_quote}{open_quote}Kondo disorder{close_quote}{close_quote}) is important in UCu{sub 5{minus}{ital x}}Pd{sub {ital x}}. NFL anomalies at temperature {ital T} then arise from {open_quote}{open_quote}free{close_quote}{close_quote} spins for which {ital T}{sub {ital K}}{lt}{ital T}. Comparison of {mu}SR and NMR linewidths also indicates short-range spatial correlation of the Kondo disorder in UCu{sub 5{minus}{ital x}}Pd{sub {ital x}}, in agreement with the local character of the dynamic susceptibility inferred from neutron scattering experiments. In CeCu{sub 5.9}Au{sub 0.1} the data suggest significant Kondo disorder only if the spatial correlation is long ranged, which is not indicated by other properties of this alloy. {copyright} {ital 1996 The American Physical Society.}

OSTI ID:
389321
Journal Information:
Physical Review, B: Condensed Matter, Vol. 54, Issue 18; Other Information: PBD: Nov 1996
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English