Acta Physica Polonica B

Vol. 34, No. 2, February 2003, page 375


Low-Energy Spin Fluctuations of the Heavy-Fermion Compound CeNi2Ge2: Origin of Non-Fermi Liquid Behavior

H. Kadowaki, T. Fukuhara, K. Maezawa

Neutron scattering shows that non-Fermi-liquid behavior of the heavy-Fermion compound CeNi2Ge2 is brought about by development of low-energy spin fluctuations with an energy scale of 0.6 meV. They appear around antiferromagnetic wave vectors (1\2  1\2 0) and (0 0 3\4) at low temperatures, and coexist with high-energy spin fluctuations with an energy scale of 4 meV and a modulation vector (0.23, 0.23, 1\2). The energy dependence of the spin fluctuations is a peculiar character of CeNi2Ge2 which differs from typical heavy-Fermion compounds, and suggests importance of low-energy structures of quasiparticle bands.

PACS numbers: 75.30.Mb, 71.10.Hf, 71.27.+a


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