Interplay of magnetism, Fermi surface reconstructions, and hidden-order in the heavy-fermion material URu$_2$Si$_2$

Details Interplay of magnetism, Fermi surface reconstructions, and hidden-order in the heavy-fermion material URu$_2$Si$_2$ Interplay of magnetism, Fermi surface reconstructions, and hidden-order in the heavy-fermion material URu$_2$Si$_2$

2011-11-18

arxiv.org/abs/1111.4430v2

Phys. Rev. B 85, 094402 (2012)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

10 pages, 6 figures, accepted in Physical Review B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.85.094402

URu$_2$Si$_2$ is surely one of the most mysterious of the heavy-fermion compounds. Despite more than twenty years of experimental and theoretical works, the order parameter of the transition at $T_0 = 17.5$ K is still unknown. The state below $T_0$ remains called "hidden-order phase" and the stakes are still to identify the energy scales driving the system to this phase. We present new magnetoresistivity and magnetization measurements performed on very-high-quality single crystals in pulsed magnetic fields up to 60 T. We show that the transition to the hidden-order state in URu$_2$Si$_2$ is initially driven by a high-temperature crossover at around 40-50 K, which is a fingerprint of inter-site electronic correlations. In a magnetic field $\mathbf{H}$ applied along the easy-axis $\bf{c}$, the vanishing of this high-temperature scale precedes the polarization of the magnetic moments, as well as it drives the destabilization of the hidden-order phase. Strongly impurity-dependent magnetoresistivity confirms that the Fermi surface is reconstructed below $T_0$ and is strongly modified in a high magnetic field applied along $\mathbf{c}$, i.e. at a sufficiently-high magnetic polarization. The possibility of a sharp crossover in the hidden-order state controlled by a field-induced change of the Fermi surface is pointed out.

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