Transport properties of the heavy fermion superconductor PrOsSb
arXiv:cond-mat/0504780 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.72.014519
Abstract
We have measured the electrical resistivity, thermoelectric power, Hall coefficient, and magnetoresistance (MR) on single crystals of PrOsSb, LaOsSb and NdOsSb. All the transport properties in PrOsSb are similar to those in LaOsSb and NdOsSb at high temperatures, indicating the localized character of 4-electrons. The transverse MR both in LaOsSb and PrOsSb tends to saturate for wide field directions, indicating these compounds to be uncompensated metals with no open orbit. We have determined the phase diagram of the field induced ordered phase by the MR measurement for all the principle field directions, which indicates an unambiguous evidence for the singlet crystalline electric field ground state.
7 pages, 10 figures, to appear in Physical Review B
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