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Title: Competing magnetic orders in the superconducting state of heavy-fermion CeRhIn5

Abstract

Applied pressure drives the heavy-fermion antiferromagnet CeRhIn5 toward a quantum critical point that becomes hidden by a dome of unconventional superconductivity. Magnetic fields suppress this superconducting dome, unveiling the quantum phase transition of local character. Here in this paper, we show that 5% magnetic substitution at the Ce site in CeRhIn5, either by Nd or Gd, induces a zero-field magnetic instability inside the superconducting state. This magnetic state not only should have a different ordering vector than the high-field local-moment magnetic state, but it also competes with the latter, suggesting that a spin-density-wave phase is stabilized in zero field by Nd and Gd impurities, similarly to the case of Ce0.95Nd0.05CoIn5. Supported by model calculations, we attribute this spin-density wave instability to a magnetic-impurity-driven condensation of the spin excitons that form inside the unconventional superconducting state.

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Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1356271
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1392869
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-16-21979
Journal ID: ISSN 0027-8424
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0012336; AC52-06NA25396
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America; Journal ID: ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher:
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC (United States)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; Material Science; magnetism; superconductivity; heavy fermions

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Rosa, P. F. S., Kang, J., Luo, Yongkang, Wakeham, N., Bauer, E. D., Ronning, F., Fisk, Z., Fernandes, R. M., and Thompson, J. D. Competing magnetic orders in the superconducting state of heavy-fermion CeRhIn5. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1073/pnas.1703016114.
Rosa, P. F. S., Kang, J., Luo, Yongkang, Wakeham, N., Bauer, E. D., Ronning, F., Fisk, Z., Fernandes, R. M., & Thompson, J. D. Competing magnetic orders in the superconducting state of heavy-fermion CeRhIn5. United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1703016114
Rosa, P. F. S., Kang, J., Luo, Yongkang, Wakeham, N., Bauer, E. D., Ronning, F., Fisk, Z., Fernandes, R. M., and Thompson, J. D. Tue . "Competing magnetic orders in the superconducting state of heavy-fermion CeRhIn5". United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1703016114.
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abstractNote = {Applied pressure drives the heavy-fermion antiferromagnet CeRhIn5 toward a quantum critical point that becomes hidden by a dome of unconventional superconductivity. Magnetic fields suppress this superconducting dome, unveiling the quantum phase transition of local character. Here in this paper, we show that 5% magnetic substitution at the Ce site in CeRhIn5, either by Nd or Gd, induces a zero-field magnetic instability inside the superconducting state. This magnetic state not only should have a different ordering vector than the high-field local-moment magnetic state, but it also competes with the latter, suggesting that a spin-density-wave phase is stabilized in zero field by Nd and Gd impurities, similarly to the case of Ce0.95Nd0.05CoIn5. Supported by model calculations, we attribute this spin-density wave instability to a magnetic-impurity-driven condensation of the spin excitons that form inside the unconventional superconducting state.},
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