Phase diagram of URu2-xFexSi2 under high magnetic field.

ORAL

Abstract

The search for the order parameter of the hidden order (HO) phase in URu$_{\mathrm{2}}$Si$_{\mathrm{2}}$ has attracted an enormous amount of attention for the past three decades. Measurements on URu$_{\mathrm{2}}$Si$_{\mathrm{2}}$ in high magnetic fields up to 45\textasciitilde T reveal that URu$_{\mathrm{2}}$Si$_{\mathrm{2}}$ displays behavior that is consistent with quantum criticality at a field near 35\textasciitilde T, where a cascade of novel quantum phases was found at and around the quantum critical point, suggesting the existence of competing order parameters. Experiments at high pressure reveal that a first order transition from the HO phase to a large moment antiferromagnetic (LMAFM) phase occurs under pressure at a critical pressure P$_{\mathrm{c}}$. We have recently demonstrated that tuning URu$_{\mathrm{2}}$Si$_{\mathrm{2}}$ by substitution of Fe for Ru offers an opportunity to study the HO and LMAFM phases at atmospheric pressure. In this study, we performed transport measurements in high magnetic field on URu$_{\mathrm{2-x}}$Fe$_{\mathrm{x}}$Si$_{\mathrm{2}}$ single crystals for various values of x and established the phase diagrams of URu$_{\mathrm{2-x}}$Fe$_{\mathrm{x}}$Si$_{\mathrm{2}}$ under high magnetic field.

*Research at UCSD is supported by the US DOE BES under Grant No. DE-FG02-04-ER46105 and the US NSF under Grant No. DMR-1206553. Research performed at NHMFL was supported by NSF under Grant No. DMR-1157490, the State of Florida and the DOE.

Authors

  • Sheng Ran

    • University of California
    • Univ of California - San Diego
  • I. Jeon

    • Univ. of California - San Diego
    • University of California
  • N. Kanchanavatee

    • University of California
  • K. Huang

    • Fudan University
    • University of California
  • Brian Maple

    • UC San Diego
    • University of California
    • Univ of California - San Diego
    • Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego
  • Andrew Gallagher

    • Florida State University
    • National High Magnetic Field Lab,Tallahassee
  • K. Chen

    • NHMFL
    • Florida State University
  • David Graf

    • National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
    • NHMFL
    • National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.
    • National High Magnetic Field Laboratory Tallahassee
    • Florida State University
    • National High Magnetic Field Lab,Tallahassee
  • Ryan Baumbach

    • NHMFL
    • National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
    • Florida State University
    • National High Magnetic Field Lab,Tallahassee
  • J. Singleton

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of Oxford