Magnetic excitation in totally symmetric staggered ordered phase of PrFeP

PrFePの全く対称的揺動秩序相における磁気励起

岩佐 和晃*; Hao, L.*; 神木 正史*; 桑原 慶太郎*; Mignot, J.-M.*; 菅原 仁*; 青木 勇二*; 松田 達磨; 佐藤 英行*

Iwasa, Kazuaki*; Hao, L.*; Kogi, Masafumi*; Kuwahara, Keitaro*; Mignot, J.-M.*; Sugawara, Hitoshi*; Aoki, Yuji*; Matsuda, Tatsuma; Sato, Hideyuki*

We report inelastic neutron scattering results for single-crystalline samples of PrFeP, which undergoes a transition from the heavy-electron phase to the antiferro-type nonmagnetic ordered phase. In contrast to the quasielastic magnetic response observed in the heavy electron phase, the well-defined inelastic peaks located at 1.5 and 3 meV are superimposed in the ordered phase. The maximum spectral intensity appears at the Brillouin zone center for the original structure, and the minimum spectral intensity appears at the zone boundaries including the ordering vector = (1,0,0). The spectra are consistent with the recently proposed staggered ordering of a Pr site with well-localized -electrons and that with a Kondo-singlet-like state, which are represented as the totally symmetric state accompanied by the charge modulation of carriers.