We report inelastic neutron scattering experiments on a single crystal of the intermediate valence compound CePd3. At 300 K the magnetic scattering is quasielastic, with halfwidth of 23 meV, and is independent of momentum transfer Q. At low temperature, the Q-averaged magnetic spectrum is inelastic, exhibiting a broad peak centered near Emax = 55 meV. These results, together with the temperature dependence of the susceptibility, 4f occupation number, and specific heat, can be fit by the Kondo/Anderson impurity model. The low temperature scattering near Emax, however, shows significant variations with Q, reflecting the coherence of the 4f lattice. The intensity is maximal at (1/2, 1/2,0), intermediate at (1/2,0,0) and (0,0,0), and weak at (1/2,1/2,1/2). We discuss this Q-dependence in terms of current ideas about coherence in heavy fermion systems.
@article{arxiv.1401.5835,
title = {Q-dependence of the spin fluctuations in the intermediate valence compound CePd3},
author = {V. R. Fanelli and J. M. Lawrence and E. A. Goremychkin and R. Osborn and E. D. Bauer and K. J. McClellan and J. D. Thompson and C. H. Booth and A. D. Christianson and P. S. Riseborough},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.5835},
year = {2014}
}