µSR study on heavy fermion compound PrRh2B2C

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PrRh2B2C remains paramagnetic down to 0.5 K without any signature of magnetic ordering. The low temperature heat capacity revealed a very high value of the Sommerfeld coefficient, γ = 250 mJ/mole K2, characterizing PrRh2B2C as a heavy fermion (HF) system. However, there is no Kondo behavior and the resistivity reflects a normal metallic behavior except at low temperatures where a signature of non Fermi liquid behavior is observed as a T1.5 temperature dependence. The analysis of heat capacity data suggests a singlet ground state in this compound. The presence of a singlet ground state suggests that the heavy HF in PrRh2B2C results from the interaction of the conduction electrons with the low-lying CF excitations. A similar mechanism of excitonic mass enhancement was proposed in PrOs4Sb12. It would be of interest to investigate the magnetic ordering in PrRh2B2C using muSR study.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.49919886
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/49919886
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Creator Dr Devashi Adroja; Dr Amitava Bhattacharyya; Dr Aidy Hillier; Dr Christoph Geibel; Dr Vivek Kumar Anand; Professor Zakir Hossain; Dr Stephen Cottrell
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2017
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2014-05-30T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2014-06-01T23:00:00Z