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Journal Article | PUBDB-2024-00409 |
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2024
APS
College Park, Md.
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Please use a persistent id in citations: doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.046401 doi:10.3204/PUBDB-2024-00409
Abstract: CeRh$_2$As$_2$ is a new multiphase superconductor with strong suggestions for an additional itinerant multipolar ordered phase. The modeling of the low-temperature properties of this heavy-fermion compound requires a quartet Ce$^{3+}$ crystal-field ground state. Here, we provide the evidence for the formation of such a quartet state using x-ray spectroscopy. Core-level photoelectron and x-ray absorption spectroscopy confirm the presence of Kondo hybridization in CeRh$_2$As$_2$. The temperature dependence of the linear dichroism unambiguously reveals the impact of Kondo physics for coupling the Kramer’s doublets into an effective quasiquartet. Nonresonant inelastic x-ray scattering data find that the $|Γ^−_7⟩$ state with its lobes along the 110 direction of the tetragonal structure (xy orientation) contributes most to the multiorbital ground state of CeRh$_2$As$_2$.
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