2023/12/20 by Osato, Kotaro, Taniguchi, Takanori, Okabe, Hirotaka +12
#FOS: Physical sciences #Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2312.12775
We report on the quantum criticality of YbCu4Ni as revealed by our combined micro- and macro-measurements. We determine the crystal structure of YbCu4Ni with site mixing by neutron diffraction measurements, which suggests the possible presence of Kondo disorder. However, decreasing the local spin susceptibility distribution and the development of spin fluctuations below 10 K at ambient pressure by muon spin rotation and relaxation measurements suggests that YbCu4Ni exhibits quantum criticality. Therefore, our experimental results indicate that YbCu4Ni is a new material that exhibits quantum criticality under a zero magnetic field and ambient pressure.