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| Journal Article | FZJ-2016-01567 |
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2015
APS
College Park, Md.
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Please use a persistent id in citations: http://hdl.handle.net/2128/9873 doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.92.115116
Abstract: We report low-energy inelastic neutron scattering data of the paramagnetic (PM) to hidden-order (HO) phase transition at T0=17.5K in URu2Si2. While confirming previous results for the HO and PM phases, our data reveal a pronounced wave-vector dependence of low-energy excitations across the phase transition. To analyze the energy scans we employ a damped harmonic oscillator model containing a fit parameter 1/Γ which is expected to diverge at a second-order phase transition. Counter to expectations the excitations at Q⃗ 1≈(1.4,0,0) show an abrupt steplike suppression of 1/Γ below T0, whereas excitations at Q⃗ 0=(1,0,0), associated with large-moment antiferromagnetism (LMAF) under pressure, show an enhancement and a pronounced peak of 1/Γ at T0. Therefore, at the critical HO temperature T0, LMAF fluctuations become nearly critical as well. This is the behavior expected of a “supervector” order parameter with nearly degenerate components for the HO and LMAF leading to nearly isotropic fluctuations in the combined order-parameter space.
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