Unusual Field-Insensitive Phase Transition and Kondo Behavior in SmTi$_2$Al$_{20}$

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2011-08-03

arxiv.org/abs/1108.0751v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

4 pages, 3 figures, to be published in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 80 (2011)

Scientific paper

10.1143/JPSJ.80.093703

Magnetization, electrical resistivity and specific heat measurements were performed on high-quality single crystalline SmTi$_2$Al$_{20}$ (residual resistivity ratio $\sim$ 40) grown by Al self-flux method. A Kondo-like $\log T$ dependence in the resistivity is observed below 50 K. We discovered a field-insensitive phase transition at $T_{x}$ = 6.5 K and a field-insensitive heavy fermion behavior with the electronic specific heat coefficient $\gamma$ = 150 mJ/(K$^{2}$ mol). Specific heat analysis reveals that the ground state is a $\Gamma_{8}$ quartet state and the Sm magnetic dipole moment $m_{{\rm Sm}}$ ($\sim 0.5 \mu_{{\rm B}}$ at $T \simeq$ 0) orders below $T_{x}$ in spite of the field-insensitive behavior. Possible reasons for the field insensitiveness will be discussed.

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