Strong Field Quenching of the Quasiparticle Effective Mass in Heavy Fermion Compound YbCo2Zn20
Strong Field Quenching of the Quasiparticle Effective Mass in Heavy Fermion Compound YbCo2Zn20
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DOI:
10.1143/jpsj.79.083601
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发表时间:
2010-08-01
影响因子:
1.7
通讯作者:
Onuki, Yoshichika
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作者:
Ohya, Masahiro;Matsushita, Masaki;Onuki, Yoshichika
We found a metamagnetic like anomaly at H-m similar or equal to 5 kOe in a heavy fermion compound YbCo2Zn20 below the characteristic temperature T-chi max = 0.32K where the ac-susceptibility shows a broad peak, suggesting that an electronic state with a very low Kondo temperature is realized. Interestingly, the metamagnetic like behavior was observed as two peaks at 4.0 and 7.5 kOe at 95 mK in the magnetic field dependence of the electronic specific heat C/T. The extremely large values of the electronic specific heat coefficient gamma similar or equal to 8000 mJ/(K-2.mol) and A = 160 mu m.cm/K-2 in the electrical resistivity rho = rho(0) + AT(2) at H = 0 kOe are most likely due to the very low Kondo temperature. The root A value was, however, found to be strongly reduced from root A = 12.6 (mu Omega.cm/K-2)(1/2) at 0 kOe to 0.145 (mu Omega.cm/K-2)(1/2) at 150 kOe. Therefore, we considered that the corresponding cyclotron effective mass m(c)*, which was determined from the temperature dependence of the de Haas-van Alphen (dHvA) amplitude, is also reduced with increasing magnetic field and is in fact not large, ranging from 2 to 9m(0) at 117 kOe. From the field dependence of root A and m(c)*, we estimated the cyclotron effective mass at 0 kOe to be 100-500m(0), revealing the largest cyclotron mass as far as we know.