Spin Fluctuations and Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior of CeNi_2Ge_2

Abstract

Neutron scattering shows that non-Fermi-liquid behavior of the heavy-fermion compound CeNi_2Ge_2 is brought about by the development of low-energy spin fluctuations with an energy scale of 0.6 meV. They appear around the antiferromagnetic wave vectors $(1/21/20)$ and $(003/4)$ at low temperatures, and coexist with high-energy spin fluctuations with an energy scale of 4 meV and a modulation vector $(0.23,0.23,1/2)$. This unusual energy dependent structure of $\text{Im}\chi (\mathbf{Q},E)$ in $\mathbf{Q}$ space suggests that quasiparticle bands are important.

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