Hybridization gap and anisotropic far-infrared optical conductivity of URu2Si2

Details Hybridization gap and anisotropic far-infrared optical conductivity of URu2Si2 Hybridization gap and anisotropic far-infrared optical conductivity of URu2Si2

2010-07-04

arxiv.org/abs/1007.0538v3

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184420 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

To be published in Physical Review B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.84.184420

We performed far-infrared optical spectroscopy measurements on the heavy fermion compound URu 2 Si 2 as a function of temperature. The light's electric-field was applied along the a-axis or the c-axis of the tetragonal structure. We show that in addition to a pronounced anisotropy, the optical conductivity exhibits for both axis a partial suppression of spectral weight around 12 meV and below 30 K. We attribute these observations to a change in the bandstructure below 30 K. However, since these changes have no noticeable impact on the entropy nor on the DC transport properties, we suggest that this is a crossover phenomenon rather than a thermodynamic phase transition.

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