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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen
TT 26: CE: Heavy Fermions
TT 26.5: Talk
Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 15:00–15:15, H21
Investigation of the metamagnetic transition in Ce1−xLaxTiGe polycrystals — •Micha Deppe, Nubia Caroca-Canales, Franziska Weickert, Stefan Lausberg, Manuel Brando, Christoph Geibel, and Frank Steglich — Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, 01187 Dresden, Germany
CeTiGe is a new heavy Fermion system with a Kondo energy scale of the order of 50 K.
Our investigations of the specific heat, magnetic susceptibility and resistivity of
polycrystals evidenced a paramagnetic heavy Fermi liquid with a Sommerfeld coefficient
γ0 ≈ 300 mJ/molK2 at low temperatures. The temperature dependence of the susceptibility
and of the specific heat reveal a maximum at 24 K and 16 K, respectively,
indicating that the full J = 5/2 state of Ce3+ is involved in the formation of the heavy Fermion ground state [1].
DC magnetization measurements at 1.8 K up to 14 T on pure CeTiGe showed a step like increase of the magnetization ΔM
≈ 0.7 µB/Ce at BMM ∼ 13.5 T, which evidences a pronounced metamagnetic transition (MM). Here we shall focus on
the development of the MM phase boundary in Ce1−xLaxTiGe upon increasing La content using ρ(B) and M(B) measurements.
The observation of a hysteresis in ρ(B) and M(B) at BMM for Ce1−xLaxTiGe, which vanishes at x = 0.6,
is a strong hint for a first order phase transition, in contrast to the crossover behavior reported for CeRu2Si2[2]. Thus the metamagnetic
transition in CeTiGe represents a unique case among Kondo lattice systems.
[1] M. Deppe et al. J. of Phys.: Condensed Matter 21, (2009) 206001.
[2] P. Haen et al. J. of Low Temp. Phys. 67 (1987).