Successive Electronic Topological Transitions in the Antiferromagnet UPd$_2$Al$_3$
Abstract
We report successive anomalies at low temperature in the magnetic field dependence of the thermoelectric signal in the heavy fermion compound UPdAl inside the antiferromagnetic state up to the metamagnetic transition at ~T. Based on renormalisation perturbation theory and the partitioning of the orbitals into localized and delocalized parts, our analysis attributes these anomalies to complex topological changes of the Fermi surface driven by Zeeman effect. The observation of a sudden change of sign both in the thermoelectric power and in the Hall coefficient at in addition to the appearance of large quantum oscillations in the thermoelectric power above indicate a strong Fermi surface reconstruction at the metamagnetic transition due to the unfolding of the electronic bands.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2607.29151,
title = {Successive Electronic Topological Transitions in the Antiferromagnet UPd$_2$Al$_3$},
author = {Adrien Gourgout and Gaël Bastien and Dai Aoki and Gabriel Seyfarth and Ilya Sheikin and Andrey Varlamov and Gertrud Zwicknagl and Jacques Flouquet and Georg Knebel and Alexandre Pourret},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.29151},
year = {2026}
}
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14 pages, 12 figures