ヤマガミ ヒロシ   YAMAGAMI HIROSHI
  山上 浩志
   所属   京都産業大学  理学部 物理科学科
   職種   教授
言語種別 英語
発行・発表の年月 2007/09
形態種別 研究論文
査読 査読あり
標題 Itinerant to localized transition of f electrons in the antiferromagnetic superconductor UPd2Al3
執筆形態 その他
掲載誌名 NATURE PHYSICS
出版社・発行元 NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
巻・号・頁 3(9),pp.618-622
著者・共著者 Shin-Ichi Fujimori,Yuji Saitoh,Tetsuo Okane,Atsushi Fujimori,Hiroshi Yamagami,Yoshinori Haga,Etsuji Yamamoto,Yoshichika Onuki
概要 In heavy-fermion compounds, f electrons show both itinerant and localized behaviour depending on the temperature(1). Above a characteristic temperature, T*, their magnetic properties can be described by completely 'localized' f-electron models. On the other hand, well below T*, their Fermi surfaces can be explained by the 'itinerant' f-electron model(2). These two models assume totally different natures of the f electrons, and how they transform between these states as a function of temperature has never been understood at the level of their electronic structures. Here, we use angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy to study the band structure of the heavy-fermion antiferromagnetic superconductor UPd2Al3 below and above T*, and find that the f bands, which form the Fermi surfaces at low temperatures, are excluded from the Fermi surfaces at high temperatures. This result demonstrates how the same f electrons can be both itinerant and localized.
DOI 10.1038/nphys651
ISSN 1745-2473