Nonvanishing Energy Scales at the Quantum Critical Point of CeCoIn5

Abstract

Heat and charge transport were used to probe the magnetic field-tuned quantum critical point in the heavy-fermion metal CeCoIn${}_5$. A comparison of electrical and thermal resistivities reveals three characteristic energy scales. A Fermi-liquid regime is observed below $T_{FL}$, with both transport coefficients diverging in parallel and $T_{FL}\to 0$ as $H\to H_c$, the critical field. The characteristic temperature of antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations, $T_{SF}$, is tuned to a minimum but {\it finite} value at $H_c$, which coincides with the end of the $T$-linear regime in the electrical resistivity. A third temperature scale, $T_{QP}$, signals the formation of quasiparticles, as fermions of charge $e$ obeying the Wiedemann-Franz law. Unlike $T_{FL}$, it remains finite at $H_c$, so that the integrity of quasiparticles is preserved, even though the standard signature of Fermi-liquid theory fails.

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