Fermi surface of a system with strong valence fluctuations: Evidence for a noninteger count of valence electrons in EuIr2Si2

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Beitragende

  • K. Götze - , Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, University of Warwick, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) (Autor:in)
  • B. Bergk - , Professur für Pulvermetallurgie, Sinter- und Verbundwerkstoffe, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Autor:in)
  • O. Ignatchik - , Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Autor:in)
  • A. Polyakov - , Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Autor:in)
  • I. Kraft - , Professur für Festkörpertheorie (gB/IFW), Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe (Autor:in)
  • V. Lorenz - , Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden (Autor:in)
  • H. Rosner - , Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe (Autor:in)
  • T. Förster - , Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Autor:in)
  • S. Seiro - , Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe, Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden (Autor:in)
  • I. Sheikin - , Université Grenoble Alpes (Autor:in)
  • J. Wosnitza - , Exzellenzcluster ct.qmat: Komplexität und Topologie in Quantenmaterialien, Professur für Physik in hohen Magnetfeldern (gB/HZDR), Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Autor:in)
  • C. Geibel - , Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe (Autor:in)

Abstract

We present de Haas-van Alphen (dHvA) measurements on an Eu-based valence-fluctuating system. EuIr2Si2 exhibits a temperature-dependent, noninteger europium valence with Eu2.8+ at low temperatures. The comparison of experimental results from our magnetic-Torque experiments in fields up to 32 T and density functional theory band-structure calculations with localized 4f electrons shows that the best agreement is reached for a Fermi surface based on a valence of Eu2.8+. The calculated quantum-oscillation frequencies for Eu3+ instead cannot explain all the experimentally observed frequencies. The effective masses, derived from the temperature dependence of the dHvA oscillation amplitudes, show not only a significant enhancement with masses up to 11me (me being the free electron mass), but also a magnetic-field dependence of the heaviest mass. We attribute the formation of these heavy masses to strong correlation effects resulting from valence fluctuations of 4f electrons being strongly hybridized with conduction electrons. The increase of the heavy masses with magnetic field likely results from the onset of the expected field-induced valence crossover that enhances these valence fluctuations but does not alter the Fermi-surface topology in the field range studied.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer155125
FachzeitschriftPhysical Review B
Jahrgang105
Ausgabenummer15
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 15 Apr. 2022
Peer-Review-StatusJa