Magnetic field dependence of the neutron spin resonance in CeB6

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Contributors

  • P. Y. Portnichenko - , TUD Dresden University of Technology (Author)
  • S. V. Demishev - , Russian Academy of Sciences (Author)
  • A. V. Semeno - , Russian Academy of Sciences (Author)
  • H. Ohta - , Kobe University (Author)
  • A. S. Cameron - , TUD Dresden University of Technology (Author)
  • M. A. Surmach - , TUD Dresden University of Technology (Author)
  • H. Jang - , Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) (Author)
  • G. Friemel - , Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) (Author)
  • A. V. Dukhnenko - , National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Author)
  • N. Yu. Shitsevalova - , National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Author)
  • V. B. Filipov - , National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Author)
  • A. Schneidewind - , Jülich Research Centre (Author)
  • J. Ollivier - , ILL - Institut Laue-Langevin (Author)
  • A. Podlesnyak - , Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Author)
  • D. S. Inosov - , TUD Dresden University of Technology (Author)

Abstract

In zero magnetic field, the famous neutron spin resonance in the f-electron superconductor CeCoIn5 is similar to the recently discovered exciton peak in the nonsuperconducting CeB6. A magnetic field splits the resonance in CeCoIn5 into two components, indicating that it is a doublet. Here we employ inelastic neutron scattering (INS) to scrutinize the field dependence of spin fluctuations in CeB6. The exciton shows a markedly different behavior without any field splitting. Instead, we observe a second field-induced magnon whose energy increases with field. At the ferromagnetic zone center, however, we find only a single mode with a nonmonotonic field dependence. At low fields, it is initially suppressed to zero together with the antiferromagnetic order parameter, but then reappears at higher fields inside the hidden-order phase, following the energy of an electron spin resonance (ESR). This is a unique example of a ferromagnetic resonance in a heavy-fermion metal seen by both ESR and INS consistently over a broad range of magnetic fields.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Article number035114
Number of pages6
JournalPhysical Review B
Volume94
Issue number3
Publication statusPublished - 6 Jul 2016
Peer-reviewedYes
Externally publishedYes

External IDs

Scopus 84978431665

Keywords

Keywords

  • DYNAMICS, ORDER, MODE

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