Field-induced order in heavy-fermion compound YbCoZn

重い電子系化合物YbCoZnにおける磁場誘起秩序

金子 耕士   ; Raymond, S.*; Ressouche, E.*; Lapertot, G.*; 竹内 徹也*; 広瀬 雄介*; 本多 史憲*; 大貫 惇睦

Kaneko, Koji; Raymond, S.*; Ressouche, E.*; Lapertot, G.*; Takeuchi, Tetsuya*; Hirose, Yusuke*; Honda, Fuminori*; Onuki, Yoshichika

YbCoZn has a heavy-fermion ground state with an enormously large Sommerfeld coefficient of 8 J/molK, and that is sensitive to external fields. Whereas pressure induces antiferromagnetic order, magnetic field induces metamagnetic transitions around 0.5 T, and new ordered state appears above 6 T for . In order to get insights into electronic states and its magnetic field response, neutron scattering experiments on single crystalline samples were carried. In a field-induced phase, magnetic reflections were successfully observed, which has a different propagation vector to that of pressure induced phase. Inelastic neutron scattering probes a crystal-field excitation at a low excitation energy which overlaps to quasielastic response. The results suggest degenerated energy scale, and that leads to variety of external response in YbCoZn.