Pressure tuning of putative quantum criticality on YbV6Sn6

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Main Authors: Sabino, P. C., Mendonça-Ferreira, L., Dias, J. G., Vasques, G. G., Dutra, M., Pizzi, H., Pagliuso, P. G., Avila, M. A.
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author Sabino, P. C.
Mendonça-Ferreira, L.
Dias, J. G.
Vasques, G. G.
Dutra, M.
Pizzi, H.
Pagliuso, P. G.
Avila, M. A.
author_facet Sabino, P. C.
Mendonça-Ferreira, L.
Dias, J. G.
Vasques, G. G.
Dutra, M.
Pizzi, H.
Pagliuso, P. G.
Avila, M. A.
contents YbV$_6$Sn$_6$ is a recently discovered heavy-fermion compound that orders at T$_N\approx 0.4$ K and exhibits a magnetic field-tuned quantum critical point at $H \approx 10$ kOe. In this work, we have grown YbV$_6$Sn$_6$ single crystals by the self-flux method, to investigate their physical properties at ambient pressure and their electrical transport properties under hydrostatic pressure. At higher temperatures, we observed a decrease in the Kondo temperature, accompanied by the appearance of a local minimum followed by a local maximum, associated with the onset of the coherent Kondo regime. Power law fitting at low temperatures indicated a recovery of the Fermi-liquid regime for pressures below 1 GPa. Above 1 GPa, a reentrance of non-Fermi-liquid behavior is suggested by a decrease in the exponent $n$, accompanied by a substantial increase in the parameter $A$, indicating the approach of a new quantum criticality tuned by hydrostatic pressure. The broad range of interactions present in YbV$_6$Sn$_6$, including RKKY, crystalline electric field (CEF), and Kondo lattice effects, appears to lead to a complex phase diagram. We present a putative phase diagram featuring double quantum criticality tuned by both magnetic field and hydrostatic pressure.
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spellingShingle Pressure tuning of putative quantum criticality on YbV6Sn6
Sabino, P. C.
Mendonça-Ferreira, L.
Dias, J. G.
Vasques, G. G.
Dutra, M.
Pizzi, H.
Pagliuso, P. G.
Avila, M. A.
Strongly Correlated Electrons
YbV$_6$Sn$_6$ is a recently discovered heavy-fermion compound that orders at T$_N\approx 0.4$ K and exhibits a magnetic field-tuned quantum critical point at $H \approx 10$ kOe. In this work, we have grown YbV$_6$Sn$_6$ single crystals by the self-flux method, to investigate their physical properties at ambient pressure and their electrical transport properties under hydrostatic pressure. At higher temperatures, we observed a decrease in the Kondo temperature, accompanied by the appearance of a local minimum followed by a local maximum, associated with the onset of the coherent Kondo regime. Power law fitting at low temperatures indicated a recovery of the Fermi-liquid regime for pressures below 1 GPa. Above 1 GPa, a reentrance of non-Fermi-liquid behavior is suggested by a decrease in the exponent $n$, accompanied by a substantial increase in the parameter $A$, indicating the approach of a new quantum criticality tuned by hydrostatic pressure. The broad range of interactions present in YbV$_6$Sn$_6$, including RKKY, crystalline electric field (CEF), and Kondo lattice effects, appears to lead to a complex phase diagram. We present a putative phase diagram featuring double quantum criticality tuned by both magnetic field and hydrostatic pressure.
title Pressure tuning of putative quantum criticality on YbV6Sn6
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09817