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Slow Spin Dynamics in Non-Fermi-Liquid UCu_{5-x}Pd_x, x = 1.0 and 1.5

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

Low-temperature muon spin-lattice relaxation measurements in the non-Fermi-liquid heavy-fermion alloys UCu_{5-x}Pd_x, x = 1.0 and 1.5, indicate inhomogeneously distributed f-electron spin fluctuation rates, and exhibit a time-field scaling of the muon relaxation function indicative of long-lived spin correlations. In UCu_4Pd the scaling exponent \gamma is small and temperature independent. In UCu_{3.5}Pd_{1.5} \gamma varies with temperature, increasing with decreasing temperature similar to spin-glass AgMn. This suggests that the spin-glass state found for x \gtrsim 2 in UCu_{5-x}Pd_x modifies the low-frequency spin dynamics in UCu_{3.5}Pd_{1.5}.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0109070,
  title  = {Slow Spin Dynamics in Non-Fermi-Liquid UCu_{5-x}Pd_x, x = 1.0 and 1.5},
  author = {D. E. MacLaughlin and R. H. Heffner and O. O. Bernal and G. J. Nieuwenhuys and J. E. Sonier and M. S. Rose and R. Chau and M. B. Maple and B. Andraka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0109070},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages, 2 figures. To be published in Proc. Int. Conf. SCES2001 (Physica B)