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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen
TT 42: Poster: Correlated Electrons I
TT 42.4: Poster
Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 15:00–18:00, P2/OG2
Symmetry-broken low-temperature state in the Kondo system Ce2Rh2Ga — •Sajal Naduvile Thadathil1,2, J Stirnat1,2, P Devi1, M Baenitz3, A Strydom4, D Soholov4, J Wosnitza1,2, and T Helm1 — 1Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory (HLD-EMFL), HZDR, Germany — 2Institute of Solid State and Materials Physics, TU Dresden, Germany — 3Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solid, Dresden, Germany — 4University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Cerium-based heavy-fermion conductors often exhibit unconventional transport and thermodynamic properties related to 4f-electron physics. Ce2Rh2Ga exhibits a structural phase transition around Tp≈ 130 K from an orthorhombic to monoclinic crystal structure accompanied by an extreme anisotropy in its electrical conduction. Recent nuclear quadrupole resonance studies on polycrystals found evidence for the emergence of two inequivalent Ce ions below 2 K with different electronic environments that may provide grounds for multi-ion Kondo physics [1]. Here, we present results from magnetotransport studies on micron-sized devices cut from single crystals. We investigated the anisotropy between 0.3 and 300 K in fields up to 16 T. Below 5 K, the angular dependence of the magnetoresistance exhibits a significant change in its rotational anisotropy, indicating a broken symmetry. These findings may provide further evidence for multi-ion Kondo physics in Ce2Rh2Ga.
[1] Sh. Yamamoto et al., Phys. Rev. B 106, 115125 (2022)