Zero-Field Ambient-Pressure Quantum Criticality in the Stoichiometric Non-Fermi Liquid System CeRhBi
Abstract
We present the spin dynamics study of a stoichiometric non-Fermi liquid (NFL) system CeRhBi, using low-energy inelastic neutron scattering (INS) and muon spin relaxation (μSR) measurements. It shows evidence for an energy-temperature (E/T) scaling in the INS dynamic response and a time-field (t/Hη) scaling of the μSR asymmetry function indicating a quantum critical behavior in this compound. The E/T scaling reveals a local character of quantum criticality consistent with the power-law divergence of the magnetic susceptibility, logarithmic divergence of the magnetic heat capacity and T-linear resistivity at low temperature. The occurrence of NFL behavior and local criticality over a very wide dynamical range at zero field and ambient pressure without any tuning in this stoichiometric heavy fermion compound is striking, making CeRhBi a model system amenable to in-depth studies for quantum criticality.
- Publication:
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Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
- Pub Date:
- June 2018
- DOI:
- 10.7566/JPSJ.87.064708
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1708.02061
- Bibcode:
- 2018JPSJ...87f4708A
- Keywords:
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- Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons
- E-Print:
- 8 pages, 3 figures