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Observation of a new excitation in the mixed-valent state of YbInCu4

S. R. Garner, Y. W. Rodriguez, Z. Schlesinger, B. Bucher, Z. Fisk, J. L. Sarrao

cond-mat.str-elarXiv:cond-mat/9910485

Abstract

Infrared measurements are used to obtain conductivity as a function of temperature and frequency in YbInCu4, which exhibits an isostructural transition to a mixed-valent state at Tv 42 K. In addition to a gradual loss of spectral weight with decreasing temperature extending up to 1.5 eV, sharp resonances appear in the mixed-valent state at 0 and 0.25 eV . These features may be key to understanding both YbInCu4 and the nature of the mixed-valent Kondo state.

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