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Fermi Surface Properties, Metamgnetic Transition and Quantum Phase Transition of CeRuSi and Its Alloys Probed by the dHvA Effect--Fermi Surface Studies on the Itinerant and Localized Dichotomy of Electron Nature

arXiv:1404.2991 · doi:10.7566/JPSJ.83.072001

Abstract

This article describes the Fermi surface properties of CeRuSi and its alloy systems CeRu(SiGe) and CeLaRuSi studied by the de Haas - van Alphen (dHvA) effect. We pay particular attention to how the Fermi surface properties and the f electron state change with magnetic properties, in particular how they change associated with metamagnetic transition and quantum phase transition. After summarizing the important physical properties of CeRuSi, we present the magnetic phase diagrams of CeRu(SiGe) and CeLaRuSi as a function of temperature, magnetic field and concentration . From the characteristic features of the magnetic phase diagram, we argue that the ferromagnetic interaction in addition to the anitferromagnetic interaction and the Kondo effect is responsible for the magnetic properties and that the metamagnetic transitions in these systems are relevant to the ferromagnetic interaction. We summarize the Fermi surface properties of CeRuSi in fields below the metamagnetic transition where the f electron state is now well understood theoretically as well as experimentally. We present experimental results in fields above the metamagnetic transitions in CeRu(SiGe) and CeLaRuSi as well as CeRuSi to show that the Fermi surface properties above the metamagnetic transitions are significantly different from those below in many important aspects. We argue that the Fermi surface properties above the metamagnetic transitions are not appropriately described in terms of either itinerant or localized f electron. The experimental results in fields below the metamagnetic transitions in CeRu(SiGe) and CeLaRuSi are presented to discuss the f electron state in the ground state. The Fermi surface properties of ...

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