Magnetic field-tuned Fermi liquid in a Kondo insulator

Kushwaha, Satya Kumar; Chan, Mun Keat; Park, Joonbum; Thomas, Sean Michael; Bauer, Eric Dietzgen; Thompson, Joe David; Ronning, Filip; Rosa, Priscila Ferrari Silveira; Harrison, Neil

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13421-w

Title: Magnetic field-tuned Fermi liquid in a Kondo insulator

Journal Article · 02 December 2019 · Nature Communications

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13421-w · OSTI ID:1619599

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Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Kondo insulators are expected to transform into metals under a sufficiently strong magnetic field. The closure of the insulating gap stems from the coupling of a magnetic field to the electron spin, yet the required strength of the magnetic field–typically of order 100 T–means that very little is known about this insulator-metal transition. Here we show that Ce₃Bi₄Pd₃, owing to its fortuitously small gap, provides an ideal Kondo insulator for this investigation. A metallic Fermi liquid state is established above a critical magnetic field of only B_c ≈ 11 T. A peak in the strength of electronic correlations near B_c, which is evident in transport and susceptibility measurements, suggests that Ce₃Bi₄Pd₃ may exhibit quantum criticality analogous to that reported in Kondo insulators under pressure. Metamagnetism and the breakdown of the Kondo coupling are also discussed.

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

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

Grant/Contract Number:: 89233218CNA000001

OSTI ID:: 1619599

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1603991; OSTI ID: 1779668

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-19-25216; LA-UR-19-25217

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Vol. 10, Issue 1; ISSN 2041-1723

Publisher:: Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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