Metallic State in Cubic FeGe beyond its Quantum Phase Transition

Details Metallic State in Cubic FeGe beyond its Quantum Phase Transition Metallic State in Cubic FeGe beyond its Quantum Phase Transition

2006-06-19

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0606493v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 047204 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

4 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.047204

We report on results of electrical resistivity and structural investigations on the cubic modification of FeGe under high pressure. The long-wavelength helical order ($T_C=280$ K) is suppressed at a critical pressure $p_c\approx 19$ GPa. An anomaly in the resistivity data at $T_X(p)$ and strong deviations from a Fermi-liquid behavior in a wide pressure range above $p_c$ suggest that the suppression of $T_C$ disagrees with the standard notion of a quantum critical phase transition. The metallic ground state persisting at high pressure can be described by band-structure calculations if structural disorder due to zero-point motion is included. Discontinuous changes in the pressure dependence of the shortest Fe-Ge interatomic distance occurring close to the $T_C(p)$ phase line could be interpreted as a symmetry-conserving transition of first order.

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