Optical conductivity of URu2Si2 in the Kondo liquid and hidden-order phases

R. P. S. M. Lobo; Jonathan Buhot; M. A. Measson; Dai Aoki; Gerard Lapertot; Pascal Lejay; C. C. Homes

Optical conductivity of URu2Si2 in the Kondo liquid and hidden-order phases

R. P. S. M. Lobo ¹ Jonathan Buhot ² M. A. Measson ² Dai Aoki ^{3, 4} Gerard Lapertot ³ Pascal Lejay ⁵ C. C. Homes ⁶

1 LPEM - Laboratoire de Physique et d'Etude des Matériaux

2 MPQ - Laboratoire Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques

3 IMAPEC - Instrumentation, Material and Correlated Electrons Physics

PHELIQS - PHotonique, ELectronique et Ingénierie QuantiqueS : DRF/INAC/PHELIQS

4 Tohoku University [Sendai]

5 CrisMass - Cristaux Massifs

NEEL - Institut Néel

6 BNL - Brookhaven National Laboratory [Upton]

Abstract : We measured the polarized optical conductivity of URu2Si2 from room temperature down to 5 K, covering the Kondo state, the coherent Kondo liquid regime, and the hidden-order phase. The normal state is characterized by an anisotropic behavior between the ab plane and c-axis responses. The ab-plane optical conductivity is strongly influenced by the formation of the coherent Kondo liquid: a sharp Drude peak develops and a hybridization gap at 12 meV leads to a spectral weight transfer to mid-infrared energies. The c-axis conductivity has a different behavior: the Drude peak already exists at 300 K and no particular anomaly or gap signature appears in the coherent Kondo liquid regime. When entering the hidden-order state, both polarizations see a dramatic decrease in the Drude spectral weight and scattering rate, compatible with a loss of about 50% of the carriers at the Fermi level. At the same time a density-wave-like gap appears along both polarizations at about 6.5 meV at 5 K. This gap closes respecting a mean-field thermal evolution in the ab plane. Along the c-axis it remains roughly constant and it "fills up" rather than closing.

Keywords : Point-Contact Spectroscopy Fermion System Uru2si2 Symmetry-Breaking Superconductor URu2Si2 Infrared Properties Surface State Resistivity

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