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E. Fawcett

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arXiv1999

The strongly enhanced magnetic excitations near the quantum critical point of Cr$_{1-x}$V$_x$ and why strong exchange enhancement need not imply heavy fermion behavior

Inelastic neutron scattering reveals strong spin fluctuations with energies as high as 0.4eV in the nearly antiferromagnetic metal Cr$_{0.95}$V$_{0.05}$. The magnetic response is well described by a modified Millis-Monien-Pines function. From the low-energy response, we deduce a large exchange enhancement, more than an order of magnitude larger than the corresponding enhancement of the low-temperature electronic heat capacity $γT$. A scaling relationship between $γ$ and the inverse of the wavevector- averaged spin relaxation rate $Γ_{\text{ave}}$ is demonstrated for a number of magnetically correlated metals

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arXiv1996

Magnetic phase diagram and transport properties of FeGe_2

We have used resistivity measurements to study the magnetic phase diagram of the itinerant antiferromagnet FeGe_2 in the temperature range from 0.3->300 K in magnetic fields up to 16 T. In contrast to theoretical predictions, the incommensurate spin density wave phase is found to be stable at least up to 16 T, with an estimated critical field μ_0H_c of ~ 30 T. We have also studied the low temperature magnetoresistance in the [100], [110], and [001] directions. The transverse magnetoresistance is well described by a power law for magnetic fields above 1 T with no saturation observed at high fields. We discuss our results in terms of the magnetic structure and the calculated electronic bandstructure of FeGe_2. We have also observed, for the first time in this compound, Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations in the transverse magnetoresistance with a frequency of 190 +- 10 T for a magnetic field along [001].

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arXiv1996

Itinerant Antiferromagnetism in FeGe_2

FeGe_2, and lightly doped compounds based on it, have a Fermi surface driven instability which drive them into an incommensurate spin density wave state. Studies of the temperature and magnetic field dependence of the resistivity have been used to determine the magnetic phase diagram of the pure material which displays an incommensurate phase at high temperatures and a commensurate structure below 263 K in zero field. Application of a magnetic field in the tetragonal basal plane decreases the range of temperatures over which the incommensurate phase is stable. We have used inelastic neutron scattering to measure the spin dynamics of FeGe_2. Despite the relatively isotropic transport the magnetic dynamics is quasi-one dimensional in nature. Measurements carried out on HET at ISIS have been used to map out the spin wave dispersion along the c-axis up the 400 meV, more than an order of magnitude higher than the zone boundary magnon for wavevectors in the basal plane.

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