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Single to Multiquasiparticle Excitations in the Itinerant Helical Magnet CeRhIn5

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Author(s)

C. Stock, Jose Rodriguez Rivera, Karin Schmalzl, E. E. Rodriguez, A. Stunault, C. Petrovic

Abstract

CeRhIn5 is an itinerant magnet where the Ce3+ spins order in a simple spiral phase caused by competing exchange interactions. We investigate the spin excitations and observe sharp spin- waves parameterized by a nearest neighbor exchange JRKKY =0.88 ±0.05 meV. At higher energies, the spin fluctuations are heavily damped where single quasiparticle states decay into a continuum constrained by kinematics of energy and momentum conservation. CeRhIn5 represents a case where competing interactions results in a breakdown of a single quasiparticle picture for the excitations.
Citation
Physical Review Letters
Volume
114
Issue
24

Keywords

Neutron Scattering, Heavy fermions, magnetic materials

Citation

Stock, C. , Rodriguez Rivera, J. , Schmalzl, K. , Rodriguez, E. , Stunault, A. and Petrovic, C. (2015), Single to Multiquasiparticle Excitations in the Itinerant Helical Magnet CeRhIn<sub>5</sub>, Physical Review Letters, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=918516 (Accessed December 14, 2024)

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Created June 18, 2015, Updated October 12, 2021