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Competing magnetic orders in the superconducting state of Nd-doped CeRhIn$_{5}$ under pressure

Authors :
Rosa, P. F. S.
Kang, Jian
Luo, Yongkang
Wakeham, N.
Bauer, E. D.
Ronning, F.
Fisk, Z.
Fernandes, R. M.
Thompson, J. D.
Publication Year :
2017

Abstract

Applied pressure drives the heavy-fermion antiferromagnet CeRhIn$_{5}$ towards a quantum critical point that becomes hidden by a dome of unconventional superconductivity. Magnetic fields suppress this superconducting dome, unveiling the quantum phase transition of local character. Here, we show that $5\%$ magnetic substitution at the Ce site in CeRhIn$_{5}$, either by Nd or Gd, induces a zero-field magnetic instability inside the superconducting state. This magnetic state not only should have a different ordering vector than the high-field local-moment magnetic state, but it also competes with the latter, suggesting that a spin-density-wave phase is stabilized in zero field by Nd and Gd impurities - similarly to the case of Ce$_{0.95}$Nd$_{0.05}$CoIn$_{5}$. Supported by model calculations, we attribute this spin-density wave instability to a magnetic-impurity driven condensation of the spin excitons that form inside the unconventional superconducting state.

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1703.00562
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1703016114