First-order phase transition to a nonmagnetic ground state in nonsymmorphic NbCrP

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: First-order phase transition to a nonmagnetic ground state in nonsymmorphic NbCrP
المؤلفون: Kuwata, Yoshiki, Kotegawa, Hisashi, Tou, Hideki, Harima, Hisatomo, Ding, Qing-Ping, Takeda, Keiki, Hayashi, Junichi, Matsuoka, Eiichi, Sugawara, Hitoshi, Sakurai, Takahiro, Ohta, Hitoshi, Furukawa, Yuji
سنة النشر: 2020
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
مصطلحات موضوعية: Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons
الوصف: We report the discovery of a first-order phase transition at around 125 K in NbCrP, which is a nonsymmorphic crystal with Pnma space group. From the resistivity, magnetic susceptibility, and nuclear magnetic resonance measurements using the crystals made by the Sn-flux method, the high-temperature (HT) phase is characterized to be metallic with a non-negligible magnetic anisotropy. The low-temperature (LT) phase is also found to be a nonmagnetic metallic state with a crystal of lower symmetry. In the LT phase, the spin susceptibility is reduced by ~30 % from that in the HT phase, suggesting that the phase transition is triggered by the electronic instability. The possible origin of the phase transition in NbCrP is discussed based on the electronic structure by comparing with those in other nonsymmorphic compounds RuP and RuAs.
Comment: 9 pages, 9 Postscript figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.102.205110
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03229
رقم الانضمام: edsarx.2011.03229
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.102.205110