Elemental Dilution Effect on the Elastic Response due to a Quadrupolar Kondo Effect of the Non-Kramers System Y1−xPrxIr2Zn20

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  • Ruo Hibino - , Hokkaido University (Author)
  • Tatsuya Yanagisawa - , Hokkaido University (Author)
  • Yoshito Mikami - , Hokkaido University (Author)
  • Hiroyuki Hidaka - , Hokkaido University (Author)
  • Hiroshi Amitsuka - , Hokkaido University (Author)
  • Sergei Zherlitsyn - , Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Author)
  • Joachim Wosnitza - , Clusters of Excellence ct.qmat: Complexity and Topology in Quantum Matter, Chair of Physics of High Magnetic Fields, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Author)
  • Yu Yamane - , University of Hyogo, Hiroshima University (Author)
  • Takahiro Onimaru - , Hiroshima University (Author)

Abstract

We measured the elastic constants (C11 − C12)=2 and C44 of the non-Kramers system Y0.63Pr0.37Ir2Zn20 (Pr-37% system) by means of ultrasound to check how the single-site quadrupolar Kondo effect is modified by increasing the Pr concentration. The Curie-like softening of (C11 − C12)=2 of the present Pr-37% system on cooling from 5 to 1 K can be reproduced by a multipolar susceptibility calculation based on the non-Kramers Γ3 doublet crystalline-electric-field ground state. Further, on cooling below 0.15 K, a temperature dependence proportional to pffiffiffi T was observed in (C11 − C12)=2. This behavior rather corresponds to the theoretical prediction of the quadrupolar Kondo “lattice” model, unlike that of the Pr-3.4% system, which shows a logarithmic temperature dependence based on the “single-site” quadrupolar Kondo theory. In addition, we discuss the possibility to form a vibronic state by the coupling between the low-energy phonons and the electric quadrupoles of the non-Kramers doublet in the Pr-37% system, since we found a low-energy ultrasonic dispersion in the temperature range between 0.15 and 1 K.

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Original languageEnglish
Article number074708
JournalJournal of the Physical Society of Japan
Volume92
Issue number7
Publication statusPublished - 15 Jul 2023
Peer-reviewedYes

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