Field-induced ferrohastatic order in cubic and tetragonal heavy fermion materials

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Abstract

Heavy fermion compounds with non-Kramers doublet ground states can realize a novel heavy Fermi liquid with spinorial hybridization ('hastatic' order) that breaks both single- and double-time reversal. Hastatic order was initially proposed to explain the hidden order in the tetragonal URu2Si2, which is stable in magnetic field up to 35T. Now several cubic Pr-"1-2-20" materials exhibit a suggestive heavy Fermi liquid stabilized in intermediate magnetic fields. In this talk, we develop a simple, yet realistic model of ferrohastatic order in both cubic and tetragonal symmetries, and elaborate its experimental signatures and behavior in field, where it is a good candidate to explain the observed heavy Fermi liquids.

*This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, under Award No. DE-SC0015891.

Presenters

  • Rebecca Flint

    • Iowa State University
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University
    • Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University

Authors

  • Rebecca Flint

    • Iowa State University
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University
    • Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University
  • John van Dyke

    • Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University
  • Milan Kornjaca

    • Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University