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Published on: August 2, 2019
Magnetic excitations in the kondo liquid: superconductivity and hidden magnetic quantum critical fluctuations
Yi-Feng Yang1, Ricardo Urbano, Nicholas J Curro
1Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
Abstract:
We report Knight-shift experiments on the superconducting heavy-electron material CeCoIn5 that allow one to track with some precision the behavior of the heavy-electron Kondo liquid in the superconducting state with results in agreement with BCS theory. An analysis of the 115In nuclear quadrupole resonance spin-lattice relaxation rate T1(-1) measurements under pressure reveals the presence of 2d magnetic quantum critical fluctuations in the heavy-electron component that are a promising candidate for the pairing mechanism in this material. Our results are consistent with an antiferromagnetic quantum critical point located at slightly negative pressure in CeCoIn5 and provide additional evidence for significant similarities between the heavy-electron materials and the high-T(c) cuprates.
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