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Heavy quasiparticles in the ferromagnetic superconductor ZrZn2
S J C Yates1, G Santi, S M Hayden
1H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, United Kingdom.
Physical Review Letters
|March 14, 2003
Abstract:
We report a study of the de Haas-van Alphen effect in the normal state of the ferromagnetic superconductor ZrZn2. Our results are generally consistent with a linear muffin-tin orbital band structure which predicts four exchange-split Fermi surface sheets. Quasiparticle effective masses are enhanced by a factor of 4.9 implying a strong coupling to magnetic excitations or phonons. ZrZn2 is unique among metallic ferromagnets in that it has a very large density of states in the ferromagnetic phase.