Crystal field and magnetic excitations of the non-centrosymmetric heavy-fermion compounds CePdSi3 and CeRuSi3

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Several non-centrosymmetric heavy-fermion compounds have been reported to exhibit unconventional superconductivity (SC). For example, both CeRhSi3 and CeIrSi3 order antiferromagnetically at ambient pressure, but show SC under applied pressure. Other isostructural cerium compounds do not show SC and several behave like localized antiferromagnets, with well defined crystalline electric field (CEF) excitations. CePdSi3 displays two antiferromagnetic transitions at 5.2 K and 3 K and we wish to measure the scattering on MERLIN with 2 incident energies. We will make detailed measurements to fit the data to a CEF model and to measure the degree 4f hybridization. We will also measure the intermediate valence compound CeRuSi3, to look at the broad excitation and to estimate the Kondo temperature. These will aid understanding of the role of magnetism in the SC of this family of compounds.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24090427
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24090427
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Creator Professor Don Paul; Professor Geetha Balakrishnan; Dr Michael Smidman; Dr Devashi Adroja
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2016
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2013-03-22T09:12:09Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-03-25T16:46:26Z