1. Spectroscopic evidence of Kondo-induced quasi-quartet in CeRh$_2$As$_2$
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Christovam, Denise S., Ferreira-Carvalho, Miguel, Marino, Andrea, Sundermann, Martin, Takegami, Daisuke, Melendez-Sans, Anna, Tsuei, Ku Ding, Hu, Zhiwei, Roessler, Sahana, Valvidares, Manuel, Haverkort, Maurits W., Liu, Yu, Bauer, Eric D., Tjeng, Liu Hao, Zwicknagl, Gertrud, and Severing, Andrea
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Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons ,Condensed Matter - Superconductivity - Abstract
CeRh$_2$As$_2$ is a new multiphase superconductor with strong suggestions for an additional itinerant multipolar ordered phase. The modeling of the low temperature properties of this heavy fermion compound requires a quartet Ce$^{3+}$ crystal-field ground state. Here we provide the evidence for the formation of such a quartet state using x-ray spectroscopy. Core-level photoelectron and x-ray absorption spectroscopy confirm the presence of Kondo hybridization in CeRh$_2$As$_2$. The temperature dependence of the linear dichroism unambiguously reveils the impact of Kondo physics for coupling the Kramer's doublets into an effective quasi-quartet. Non-resonant inelastic x-ray scattering data find that the $|\Gamma_7^- \rangle$ state with its lobes along the 110 direction of the tetragonal structure ($xy$ orientation) contributes most to the multi-orbital ground state of CeRh$_2$As$_2$., Comment: 8 pages, 7 figures
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- 2023
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