Anisotropic Hall Effect in Single Crystal Heavy Fermion YbAgGe

Details Anisotropic Hall Effect in Single Crystal Heavy Fermion YbAgGe Anisotropic Hall Effect in Single Crystal Heavy Fermion YbAgGe

2004-06-18

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0406435v3

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

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Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.71.054408

Temperature- and field-dependent Hall effect measurements are reported for YbAgGe, a heavy fermion compound exhibiting a field-induced quantum phase transition, and for two other closely related members of the RAgGe series: a non-magnetic analogue, LuAgGe and a representative, ''good local moment'', magnetic material, TmAgGe. Whereas the temperature dependent Hall coefficient of YbAgGe shows behavior similar to what has been observed in a number of heavy fermion compounds, the low temperature, field-dependent measurements reveal well defined, sudden changes with applied field; in specific for $H \perp c$ a clear local maximum that sharpens as temperature is reduced below 2 K and that approaches a value of 45 kOe - a value that has been proposed as the $T = 0$ quantum critical point. Similar behavior was observed for $H \| c$ where a clear minimum in the field-dependent Hall resistivity was observed at low temperatures. Although at our base temperatures it is difficult to distinguish between the field-dependent behavior predicted for (i) diffraction off a critical spin density wave or (ii) breakdown in the composite nature of the heavy electron, for both field directions there is a distinct temperature dependence of a feature that can clearly be associated with a field-induced quantum critical point at $T = 0$ persisting up to at least 2 K.

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