Metallic Ground State and Glassy Transport in Single Crystalline URh2Ge2: Enhancement of Disorder Effects in a Strongly Correlated Electron System

S. Süllow, I. Maksimov, A. Otop, F. J. Litterst, A. Perucchi, L. Degiorgi, and J. A. Mydosh
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 266602 – Published 21 December 2004

Abstract

We present a detailed study of the electronic transport properties on a single crystalline specimen of the moderately disordered heavy-fermion system URh2Ge2. For this material, we find glassy electronic transport in a single crystalline compound. We derive the temperature dependence of the electrical conductivity and establish metallicity by means of optical conductivity and Hall effect measurements. The overall behavior of the electronic transport properties closely resembles that of metallic glasses, with at low temperatures an additional minor spin disorder contribution. We argue that this glassy electronic behavior in a crystalline compound reflects the enhancement of disorder effects as a consequence of strong electronic correlations.

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  • Received 23 August 2004

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.266602

©2004 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

S. Süllow1, I. Maksimov1, A. Otop1, F. J. Litterst1, A. Perucchi2, L. Degiorgi2, and J. A. Mydosh3,4

  • 1Institut für Metallphysik und Nukleare Festkörperphysik, TU Braunschweig, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
  • 2Laboratorium für Festkörperphysik, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
  • 3Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
  • 4Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, 01187 Dresden, Germany

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Vol. 93, Iss. 26 — 31 December 2004

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