Author:
Kawasaki Shinji,Oka Toshihide,Sorime Akira,Kogame Yuji,Uemoto Kazuhiro,Matano Kazuaki,Guo Jing,Cai Shu,Sun Liling,Sarrao John L.,Thompson Joe D.,Zheng Guo-qing
Abstract
AbstractA fundamental problem posed from the study of correlated electron compounds, of which heavy-fermion systems are prototypes, is the need to understand the physics of states near a quantum critical point (QCP). At a QCP, magnetic order is suppressed continuously to zero temperature and unconventional superconductivity often appears. Here, we report pressure (P)-dependent 115In nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) measurements on heavy-fermion antiferromagnet CeRh0.5Ir0.5In5. These experiments reveal an antiferromagnetic (AF) QCP at $${P}_{{\rm{c}}}^{{\rm{AF}}}=1.2$$
P
c
AF
=
1.2
GPa where a dome of superconductivity reaches a maximum transition temperature Tc. Preceding $${P}_{{\rm{c}}}^{{\rm{AF}}}$$
P
c
AF
, however, the NQR frequency νQ undergoes an abrupt increase at $${P}_{{\rm{c}}}^{{\rm{* }}}$$
P
c
*
= 0.8 GPa in the zero-temperature limit, indicating a change from localized to itinerant character of cerium’s f-electron and associated small-to-large change in the Fermi surface. At $${P}_{{\rm{c}}}^{{\rm{AF}}}$$
P
c
AF
where Tc is optimized, there is an unusually large fraction of gapless excitations well below Tc that implicates spin-singlet, odd-frequency pairing symmetry.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy
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