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Nonmagnetic crystal-electric-field ground state in the heavy-fermion compound PrInAg2

Creators

  • 1. Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States). Lujan Center
  • 2. Univ. of California, Riverside, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics
  • 3. New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM (United States). Physics Dept.
  • 4. Ames Lab., IA (United States)
  • 5. Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States)
  • 6. Argonne National Lab., IL (United States). Intense Pulsed Neutron Source

Description

The authors have performed inelastic neutron scattering measurements that confirm that the crystal-electric-field split ground state in the heavy-fermion compound PrInAg2 is a nonmagnetic, non-Kramers doublet. This implies that a quadrupolar Kondo interaction is responsible for the enhanced thermodynamic properties observed at low temperatures. They also observe anomalous broadening of the inelastic peaks and suggest two possible causes for this broadening

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Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
10 p.
Report number
LA-UR--98-3558

Conference

Title
International conference on strongly correlated electron systems
Dates
14-18 Jul 1998
Place
Paris (France)

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
30040301
Subject category
S75: CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
BAND THEORY; CRYSTAL FIELD; INDIUM ALLOYS; INELASTIC SCATTERING; KONDO EFFECT; PRASEODYMIUM ALLOYS; SILVER ALLOYS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES
Descriptors DEC
ALLOYS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; RARE EARTH ALLOYS; SCATTERING; TRANSITION ELEMENT ALLOYS

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
Contract W-7405-ENG-36
Funding organization
USDOE Assistant Secretary for Human Resources and Administration, Washington, DC (United States)
Secondary number(s)
CONF-980745--