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Successive Electronic Topological Transitions in the Antiferromagnet UPd$_2$Al$_3$

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2026-07-31 v1 Superconductivity

Abstract

We report successive anomalies at low temperature in the magnetic field dependence of the thermoelectric signal in the heavy fermion compound UPd2_{2}Al3_{3} inside the antiferromagnetic state up to the metamagnetic transition at HM=18H_\text{M} =18~T. Based on renormalisation perturbation theory and the partitioning of the ff 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 HMH_\text{M} in addition to the appearance of large quantum oscillations in the thermoelectric power above HMH_\text{M} indicate a strong Fermi surface reconstruction at the metamagnetic transition due to the unfolding of the electronic bands.

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@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