Neutron scattering and scaling behavior in URu2Zn20 and YbFe2Zn20

Details Neutron scattering and scaling behavior in URu2Zn20 and YbFe2Zn20 Neutron scattering and scaling behavior in URu2Zn20 and YbFe2Zn20

2010-03-17

arxiv.org/abs/1003.3484v1

Phys. Rev. B 82, 184407 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

7 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.82.184407

The dynamic susceptibility chi"(deltaE), measured by inelastic neutron scattering measurements, shows a broad peak centered at Emax = 16.5 meV for the cubic actinide compound URu2Zn20 and 7 meV at the (1/2, 1/2, 1/2) zone boundary for the rare earth counterpart compound YbFe2Zn20. For URu2Zn20, the low temperature susceptibility and magnetic specific heat coefficient gamma = Cmag/T take the values chi = 0.011 emu/mole and gamma = 190 mJ/mole-K2 at T = 2 K. These values are roughly three times smaller, and Emax is three times larger, than recently reported for the related compound UCo2Zn20, so that chi and gamma scale inversely with the characteristic energy for spin fluctuations, Tsf = Emax/kB. While chi(T), Cmag(T), and Emax of the 4f compound YbFe2Zn20 are very well described by the Kondo impurity model, we show that the model works poorly for URu2Zn20 and UCo2Zn20, suggesting that the scaling behavior of the actinide compounds arises from spin fluctuations of itinerant 5f electrons.

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