Abstract
We performed far-infrared optical spectroscopy measurements on the heavy fermion compound URuSi as a function of temperature. The light's electric field was applied along the or axis of the tetragonal structure. We show that in addition to a pronounced anisotropy, the optical conductivity exhibits for both axis a partial suppression of spectral weight around 12 meV and below 30 K. We attribute these observations to a change in the band structure below 30 K. However, since these changes have no noticeable impact on the entropy nor on the DC transport properties, we suggest that this is a crossover phenomenon rather than a thermodynamic phase transition.
- Received 4 July 2010
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.84.184420
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