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Spin-liquid signatures in the quantum critical regime of pressurized CePdAl

M. Majumder1,2, R. Gupta3, H. Luetkens3, R. Khasanov3, O. Stockert4, P. Gegenwart2, and V. Fritsch2

  • 1Department of Physics, Shiv Nadar University, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh 201314, India
  • 2Experimental Physics VI, Center for Electronic Correlations and Magnetism, University of Augsburg, 86159 Augsburg, Germany
  • 3Laboratory for Muon Spin Spectroscopy, Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
  • 4Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, 01187 Dresden, Germany

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Phys. Rev. B 105, L180402 – Published 4 May, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.105.L180402

Abstract

CePdAl is a prototypical frustrated Kondo lattice with partial long-range order (LRO) at TN=2.7 K. Previous bulk experiments under hydrostatic pressure found signatures for a quantum critical regime that extends from pc≈0.9 GPa, where LRO disappears, up to ∼1.7 GPa. We employed extensive muon spin relaxation and rotation experiments under pressure. The continuous and complete suppression of LRO at pc is confirmed. Above TN(p) and beyond pc, an additional crossover scale T*(p) characterizes the change from pure to stretched exponential relaxation in zero field. Remarkably, T*(p) agrees with previously determined signatures of entropy accumulation above LRO. This coincidence microscopically evidences fluctuating frustrated spins at T≤T* with spin-liquid behavior. Power-law divergences of the temperature and longitudinal field dependences of the relaxation rate, with time-field scaling, at pressures between pc and 1.7 GPa characterize this regime as quantum critical.

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Phys. Rev. B 105, L180402– Published 4 May, 2022
  • Received 22 February 2022
  • Accepted 25 April 2022
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