Physical Review Letters ( IF 8.6 ) Pub Date : 2019-11-07 00:00:00 , DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.123.197203 S. Gheidi , K. Akintola , K. S. Akella , A. M. Côté , S. R. Dunsiger , C. Broholm , W. T. Fuhrman , S. R. Saha , J. Paglione , J. E. Sonier
By means of new muon spin relaxation experiments, we disentangle extrinsic and intrinsic sources of low-temperature bulk magnetism in the candidate topological Kondo insulator (TKI)
. Results on Al-flux-grown
single crystals are compared to those on a large floating-zone-grown
single crystal in which a 14 meV bulk spin exciton has been detected by inelastic neutron scattering. Below
, we detect the gradual development of quasistatic magnetism due to rare-earth impurities and Sm vacancies. Our measurements also reveal two additional forms of intrinsic magnetism: (1) underlying low-energy (
) weak magnetic moment (
) fluctuations similar to those detected in the related candidate TKI
that persist down to millikelvin temperatures, and (2) magnetic fluctuations consistent with a 2.6 meV bulk magnetic excitation at zero magnetic field that appears to hinder surface conductivity above
. We discuss potential origins of the magnetism.
中文翻译:
InSmB6的固有低温磁性
通过新的介子自旋弛豫实验,我们可以解开候选拓扑近藤绝缘子(TKI)中低温体磁的外部和本征源
。助焊剂生长的结果
将单晶与在大浮区上生长的单晶进行比较
通过非弹性中子散射检测到14 meV本体自旋激子的单晶体。以下
,我们检测到由于稀土杂质和Sm空位导致的准静态磁场的逐渐发展。我们的测量还揭示了固有磁场的两种其他形式:(1)潜在的低能(
)弱磁矩(
)波动,类似于在相关候选TKI中检测到的波动
会持续下降到毫ikelvin温度,并且(2)磁场波动与2.6 meV在零磁场下的体磁激发相一致,这似乎会阻碍表面电导率高于
。我们讨论了磁性的潜在起源。