ABSTRACT
High resolution Compton profiles have been measured in the single crystal of CeRu(2)Si(2) above and below the Kondo temperature to elucidate the change of the Ce-4f electron from localized to itinerant states. Two-dimensional electron occupation number densities projected on the first Brillouin zone, which are obtained after a series of analyses, clearly specify the difference between itinerant and localized states. The contribution of Ce-4f electrons to the electronic structure is discussed by contrast with a band calculation.
ABSTRACT
We report the discovery of a jump in the magnetization of a macroscopic single crystalline sample of UGe2 that shows coexistence of ferromagnetism and superconductivity. In particular, we observe that the jump occurs at regular intervals of field and only at very low temperatures. This novel feature implies that the magnetic field induces a sudden change of the direction of the magnetization between two equivalent easy axes of magnetization even in a macroscopic sample. We ascribe it to a field-tuned resonant tunneling between quantum spin states, and we propose that the size of a magnetic domain is smaller than a superconducting coherence length.
