Orbital-selective Kondo-lattice and enigmatic f-electrons emerging from inside the antiferromagnetic phase of a heavy fermion
arXiv:1906.01742 · doi:10.1126/sciadv.aaw9061
Abstract
Novel electronic phenomena frequently form in heavy fermions as a consequence of the mutual nature of localization and itineracy of f electrons. On the magnetically ordered side of the heavy fermion phase diagram, f moments are expected to be localized and decoupled from the Fermi surface. It remains ambiguous whether a Kondo lattice can develop inside the magnetically ordered phase. Using spectroscopic imaging with the scanning tunneling microscope, complemented by neutron scattering, x ray absorption spectroscopy, and dynamical mean field theory, we probe the electronic states in the antiferromagnetic USb2 as a function of temperature. We visualize a large gap in the antiferromagnetic phase at high temperatures, T lower than TN 200 K, within which Kondo hybridization gradually develops below Tcoh 80 K. Our dynamical mean field theory calculations indicate the antiferromagnetism and Kondo lattice to reside predominantly on different f orbitals, promoting orbital selectivity as a new conception into how these two phenomena coexist in heavy fermions. Finally, at Tstar 45 K we discover a novel 1st order like electronic transition through the abrupt emergence of non trivial 5f electronic states that may share some resemblance to the hidden order phase of URu2Si2.
arXiv commentScience Advances - In Press (2019)
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