Probing quantum criticality in ferromagnetic CeRh6Ge4
arxiv(2024)
摘要
CeRh_6Ge_4 is unusual in that its ferromagnetic transition can be
suppressed continuously to zero temperature, i.e., to a ferromagnetic
quantum-critical point (QCP), through the application of modest hydrostatic
pressure. This discovery has raised the possibility that the ferromagnetic QCP
may be of the Kondo-breakdown type characterized by a jump in Fermi volume, to
which thermopower S measurements should be sensitive. Though S/T changes both
sign and magnitude around the critical pressure P_c≈0.8 GPa, these
changes are not abrupt but extend over a pressure interval from within the
ferromagnetic state up to P_c. Together with temperature and pressure
variations in electrical resistivity and previously reported heat capacity,
thermopower results point to the near coincidence of two sequential effects
near P_c, delocalization of 4f degrees-of-freedom through orbital-selective
hybridization followed by quantum criticality of itinerant ferromagnetism.
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