Fermi surface instability and symmetry breaking in the heavy-fermion compound YbBiPt
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· Physical Review Letters; (United States)
- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)
We report resistivity measurements on the cubic heavy-fermion compound YbBiPt at ambient and hydrostatic pressures to [approx]6 kbar and in magnetic fields to 1 T. Resistivity anisotropy sets in below the phase-transition temperature [ital T][sub [ital c]]=0.4 K. We interpret a rise of resistivity below 0.4 K as due to partial gapping of the Fermi surface with the weak coupling energy gap of [Delta][sub 0]/[ital k][sub [ital B]][ital T][sub [ital c]]=1.65[plus minus]0.15. Effects of hydrostatic pressure and magnetic field on the phase transition and heat capacity data are consistent with a spin density wave formation in a very heavy electron band at [ital T]=0.4 K.
- OSTI ID:
- 7150709
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters; (United States), Vol. 73:3; ISSN 0031-9007
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY
PLATINUM ALLOYS
YTTERBIUM ALLOYS
ANISOTROPY
ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE
GROUND STATES
MAGNETIC FIELDS
MAGNETISM
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