Published April 30, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Metal-insulator transition under high pressure in PrFe4P12

  • 1. Faculty of Science, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530 (Japan)
  • 2. Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 567-8531 (Japan)
  • 3. Department of Physics, Kobe University, Nada, Kobe 657-8501 (Japan)
  • 4. Department of Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0397 (Japan)
  • 5. Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Tokushima University, Tokushima, 770 Japan (JP)

Description

We have studied the electrical resistivity in a skutterudite compound PrFe4P12 under high pressure. An antiferro-quadrupolar ordering temperature TQ decreases monotonously with increasing pressure up to 2.4GPa. Above 2.4GPa, the metal-insulator (M-I) transition appears. By applying magnetic field, this M-I transition is suppressed easily and heavy-fermion state is realized. The observed Kondo effect and the field-induced heavy-fermion state at high pressure suggest that the quadrupolar interactions of the f electrons of Pr3+ survive even in the insulator phase

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physb.2005.01.334;
PII
S0921-4526(05)00308-X;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physica. B, Condensed Matter
Journal Volume
359-361
Journal Page Range
p. 886-888
ISSN
0921-4526
CODEN
PHYBE3

Conference

Title
International conference on strongly correlated electron systems
Acronym
SCES '04
Dates
26-30 Jul 2004
Place
Karlsruhe (Germany)

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