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Infrared spectroscopic study of phonons coupled to charge excitations in FeSi
From an investigation of the optical conductivity of FeSi single crystals
using FTIR spectroscopy in the frequency range from 30 to 20000 wavenumbers we
conclude that the transverse effective charge of the Fe and Si ions is
approximately 4e. Of the five optical phonons which are allowed by symmetry we
observe only four, three of which have a Fano line shape presumably resulting
from an interaction of these modes with the electronic continuum. We show that
the large oscillator strength of the phonons results from a relatively weak
coupling (lambda of the order of 0.1) of the lattice degrees of freedom to an
electronic resonance above the semiconductor gap, which is also responsible for
the large electronic polarizability of the medium.Comment: Revtex, 10 pages, 2 postscript pictures, to be published in Phys.
Rev. B Rapid Comm
Damping mechanism for the strongly renormalized -axis charge transport in high- cuprate superconductors
We analyze the -axis infrared reflectivity of
LaSrCuO single crystals. The plasma edge near 6 meV,
observed below , is due to Cooper-pair tunneling. This low value of the
plasma edge is consistent with the -axis plasma frequency () obtained
from LDA calculations ( eV) if we take into account that the
single-particle charge transport along the axis is strongly incoherent both
above and below . We find no evidence for a reduction of the -axis
scattering rate () below . Our investigation suggests
, which is exactly opposite to the clean limit.
VSGD.94.6.1Comment: 4 pages, figures on request. Revtex, version 2, Materials Science
Center Internal Report Number VSGD.94.6.
Strict limit on in-plane ordered magnetic dipole moment in URu2Si2
Neutron diffraction is used to examine the polarization of weak static
antiferromagnetism in high quality single crystalline URu2Si2. As previously
documented, elastic Bragg-like diffraction develops for temperature T<T_{HO}=
17.5 K at q=(100) but not at wave vector transfer q=(001). The peak width
indicates correlation lengths \xi_c=230(12) \AA \ and \xi_a=240(15) \AA. The
integrated intensity of the T-dependent peaks corresponds to a sample averaged
c-oriented staggered moment of \mu_{c}=0.022(1) \mu_B at T=1.7 K. The absence
of T-dependent diffraction at q=(001) places a limit \mu_{\perp}<0.0011 \mu_B
on an f- or d-orbital based in-plane staggered magnetic dipole moment, which is
associated with multipolar orders proposed for URu_2Si_2.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figure
Magnetism in heavy-fermion U(Pt,Pd)3 studied by mSR
We report mSR experiments carried out on a series of heavy-electron
pseudobinary compounds U(Pt1-xPdx)3 (x<=0.05). For x<=0.005 the zero-field muon
depolarisation is described by the Kubo-Toyabe function. However the
temperature variation of the Kubo-Toyabe relaxation rate does not show any sign
of the small-moment antiferromagnetic phase with TN~6 K (signalled by neutron
diffraction), in contrast to previous reports. The failure to detect the small
ordered moment suggests it has a fluctuating (> 10 MHz) nature, which is
consistent with the interpretation of NMR data. For 0.01<=x<=0.05 the muon
depolarisation in the ordered state is described by two terms of equal
amplitude: an exponentially damped spontaneous oscillation and a Lorentzian
Kubo-Toyabe function. These terms are associated with antiferromagnetic order
with substantial moments. The Knight-shift measured in a magnetic field of 0.6
T on single-crystalline U(Pt0.95Pd0.05)3 in the paramagnetic state shows two
signals for B perpendicular to c, while only one signal is observed for B||c.
The observation of two signals for B perpendicular to c, while there is only
one muon localisation site (0,0,0), points to the presence of two spatially
distinct regions of different magnetic response.Comment: 25 pages including 12 figures (PS), J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, in
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