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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
卷 82, 期 23, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.82.235116
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- NSF [DMR-0906943, NIRT-ECS-0608842]
- DOE [DE-FG02-99ER45790]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Materials Research [0906943] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
The dilute Kondo compound, Th1-xUxRu2Si2, displays non-Fermi-liquid behavior but no zero-point entropy; it thus appears to elude description by known single-ion models. It may also provide a clue to the underlying local degrees of freedom in its dense counterpart, URu2Si2. Here we use high-resolution magnetization studies to cross-check the thermodynamic consistency of previous experiments. Measurement of the field dependence of the temperature scale, T-F(H), associated with Fermi-liquid behavior probes the nature of the underlying impurity fixed point. We find that T-F(H) grows linearly with applied field, in contrast to the quadratic form expected for the two-channel Kondo model. We use a scaling argument to show that the observed behavior of T-F(H) is consistent with the absence of zero-point entropy, suggesting novel impurity behavior in this material. More generally, we suggest the field magnetization as a probe of single-ion physics and make predictions for its behavior in other actinide compounds.
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