Probing the f-state configuration of URu2Si2 with U LIII-edge resonant x-ray absorption spectroscopy
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
It has often been said that the most interesting physics occurs when competing interactions are of nearly the same magnitude. Such a situation is surely occurring at URu2Si2’s so-called “hidden-order transition”, which garners its name from the missing entropy at a 17.5 K phase transition relative to that expected for a conventional antiferromagnetic phase transition, despite the presence of only a very small ordered magnetic moment. Despite this discrepancy being identified in 1985, the identification of the order parameter remains elusive, although progress toward understand- ing this transition has been steady since that time, and URu2Si2 remains an important research subject today. The work described provides measures of the 5f orbital occupancy and itinerancy using resonant x-ray emission spectroscopy (RXES) at the U LIII absorption edge and measuring U Lα1 emission that potentially acts as a dividing line between different classes of “hidden-order” theories.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC52-07NA27344
- OSTI ID:
- 1240934
- Report Number(s):
- LLNL-TR-678981; TRN: US1600691
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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