Single to Multiquasiparticle Excitations in the Itinerant Helical Magnet CeRhIn5

Stock, C.; Rodriguez-Rivera, J. A.; Schmalzl, K.; Rodriguez, E. E.; Stunault, A.; Petrovic, C.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.247005

Title: Single to Multiquasiparticle Excitations in the Itinerant Helical Magnet CeRhIn₅

Journal Article · Fri Jun 19 04:00:00 UTC 2015 · Physical Review Letters

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.247005 · OSTI ID:1226034

Stock, C. ^[1]; Rodriguez-Rivera, J. A. ^[2]; Schmalzl, K. ^[3]; Rodriguez, E. E. ^[2]; Stunault, A. ^[4]; Petrovic, C. ^[5]

Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland (United Kingdom)
Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
Julich Research Centre (Germany). Julich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS)
Inst. Laue-Langevin (ILL), Grenoble (France)
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Neutron scattering is used to measure the quantum spin fluctuations in CeRhIn₅ - the parent material of the eXIn₅ superconducting series. Out-of-plane spin fluctuations are gapped and localized in momentum, similar to the spin excitons in CeCoIn5. The in-plane fluctuations consist of sharp spin-wave excitations parameterized by a nearest neighbor exchange J_RKKY =0.88 ± 0.05 meV that crossover to a temporally and spatially broad multiparticle spectrum with energies of ~ 2 × J_RKKY . This continuum represents composite fluctuations that illustrate the breakdown of single magnons originating from the delicate energy balance between localized 4f and itinerant behavior in a heavy metal. The experiment therefore shows how quasiparticle behavior is changed by the close proximity of quantum criticality.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

OSTI ID:: 1226034

Report Number(s):: BNL--108315-2015-JA

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 24 Vol. 114; ISSN 0031-9007

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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