Evolution of the Kondo lattice and non-Fermi liquid excitations in a heavy-fermion metal
- Strong electron correlations can give rise to extraordinary properties of metals with renormalized Landau quasiparticles. Near a quantum critical point, these quasiparticles can be destroyed and non-Fermi liquid behavior ensues. YbRh2Si2 is a prototypical correlated metal exhibiting the formation of quasiparticle and Kondo lattice coherence, as well as quasiparticle destruction at a field-induced quantum critical point. Here we show how, upon lowering the temperature, Kondo lattice coherence develops at zero field and finally gives way to non-Fermi liquid electronic excitations. By measuring the single-particle excitations through scanning tunneling spectroscopy, we find the Kondo lattice peak displays a non-trivial temperature dependence with a strong increase around 3.3 K. At 0.3 K and with applied magnetic field, the width of this peak is minimized in the quantum critical regime. Our results demonstrate that the lattice Kondo correlations have to be sufficiently developed before quantum criticality can set in.
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| Author: | Silvia Seiro, Lin Jiao, Stefan Kirchner, Stefanie Hartmann, Sven Friedemann, Cornelius KrellnerORCiDGND, Christoph GeibelORCiD, Qimiao Si, Frank Steglich, Steffen Wirth |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-471482 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05801-5 |
| ISSN: | 2041-1723 |
| Pubmed Id: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30127442 |
| Parent Title (English): | Nature Communications |
| Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group UK |
| Place of publication: | [London] |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2018 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2018/08/20 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2018/08/28 |
| Tag: | Electronic properties and materials; Magnetic properties and materials; Phase transitions and critical phenomena |
| Volume: | 9 |
| Issue: | 1, Art. 3324 |
| Page Number: | 7 |
| First Page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 7 |
| Note: | Rights and permissions:Open Access: This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 450967050 |
| Institutes: | Physik / Physik |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |
