Disorder-Driven Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior in CeRhRuSi2
Abstract
We report measurements of the bulk magnetic susceptibility and 29Si nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) linewidth in the heavy-fermion alloy CeRhRuSi2. The linewidth increases rapidly with decreasing temperature and reaches large values at low temperatures, which strongly suggests the wide distributions of local susceptibilities j obtained in disorder-driven theories of non-Fermi-liquid (NFL) behavior. The NMR linewidths agree well with distribution functions P() which fit bulk susceptibility and specific heat data. The apparent return to Fermi-liquid behavior observed below 1 K is manifested in the vanishing of P() as ∞, suggesting the absence of strong magnetic response at low energies. Our results indicate the need for an extension of some current theories of disorder-driven NFL behavior in order to incorporate this low-temperature crossover.
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