Anisotropic Zeeman Splitting in YbNi4P2
Sara Karbassi, Saman Ghannadzadeh, Kristin Kliemt, Manuel Brando, Cornelius Krellner, Sven Friedemann
SciPost Phys. 5, 056 (2018) · published 30 November 2018
- doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.5.5.056
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Abstract
The electronic structure of heavy-fermion materials is highly renormalised at low temperatures with localised moments contributing to the electronic excitation spectrum via the Kondo effect. Thus, heavy-fermion materials are very susceptible to Lifshitz transitions due to the small effective Fermi energy arising on parts of the renormalised Fermi surface. Here, we study Lifshitz transitions that have been discovered in YbNi4P2 in high magnetic fields. We measure the angular dependence of the critical fields necessary to induce a number of Lifshitz transitions and find it to follow a simple Zeeman-shift model with anisotropic g-factor. This highlights the coherent nature of the heavy quasiparticles forming a renormalised Fermi surface. We extract information on the orientation of the Fermi surface parts giving rise to the Lifshitz transitions and we determine the anisotropy of the effective g-factor to be $\eta \approx 3.8$ in good agreement with the crystal field scheme of YbNi4P2.
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Authors / Affiliations: mappings to Contributors and Organizations
See all Organizations.- 1 Sara Karbassi,
- 2 Saman Ghannadzadeh,
- 3 Kristin Kliemt,
- 4 Manuel Brando,
- 3 Cornelius Krellner,
- 1 Sven Friedemann
- 1 University of Bristol
- 2 Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen / Radboud University Nijmegen [RUN]
- 3 Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main / Goethe University Frankfurt
- 4 Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe / Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids