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Electro-nuclear transition into a spatially modulated magnetic state in YbRh$_2$Si$_2$

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2023-04-05 v2

Abstract

The nature of the antiferromagnetic order in the heavy fermion metal YbRh2_2Si2_2, its quantum criticality, and superconductivity, which appears at low mK temperatures, remain open questions. We report measurements of the heat capacity over the wide temperature range 180 μ\muK - 80 mK, using current sensing noise thermometry. In zero magnetic field we observe a remarkably sharp heat capacity anomaly at 1.5 mK, which we identify as an electro-nuclear transition into a state with spatially modulated electronic magnetic order of maximum amplitude 0.1μB\mu_B. We also report results of measurements in magnetic fields in the range 0 to 70 mT, applied perpendicular to the c-axis, which show eventual suppression of this order. These results demonstrate a coexistence of a large moment antiferromagnet with putative superconductivity.

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@article{arxiv.2210.03673,
  title  = {Electro-nuclear transition into a spatially modulated magnetic state in YbRh$_2$Si$_2$},
  author = {J. Knapp and L. V. Levitin and J. Nyéki and A. F. Ho and B. Cowan and J. Saunders and M. Brando and C. Geibel and K. Kliemt and C. Krellner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.03673},
  year   = {2023}
}

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12 pages, 14 figures, including the supplementary information