Direct observation of quasi-particle band in CeIrIn$_5$ Angle-resolved photoemission spectr.pdf

HEPqed Direct observation of quasiparticle band in CeIrIn Angleresolved photoemission spectroscopy study Shinichi Fujimori Atsushi Fujimori Kenya Shimada Takamasa Narimura Kenichi Kobayashi Hirofumi Namatame Masaki Taniguchi Hisatomo Harima Hiroaki Shishido Shugo Ikeda Dai Aoki Yoshifumi Tokiwa  Yoshinori Haga and Yoshichika Onuki Synchrotron Radiation Research Unit Japan Atomic Energy Agency SPring Sayo Hyogo   Japan Department of Complexity Science and Engineering University of Tokyo Kashiwa Chiba   Japan Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center Hiroshima University HigashiHiroshima Hiroshima  Japan Graduate School of Science Hiroshima University HigashiHiroshima Hiroshima  Japan Department of Physics Kobe University Nada Kobe   Japan Graduate School of Science Osaka University Toyonaka Osaka    Japan Advanced Science Research Center Japan Atomic Energy Agency Tokai Ibaraki    Japan Institute for Material Research Tohoku University Sendai   Japan Los Alamos National Laboratory Condensed Matter and Thermal Physics MST  MS K  Los Alamos New Mexico   USA Dated February    We have performed a highresolution angle resolved Ce d f resonant photoemission experiment on the heavy fermion superconductor CeIrIn We have observed a quasiparticle band which has an energy dispersion of  meV in the Ce f onresonance spectra The result suggests that although the f spectra are dominated by the localizedcorrelated character the small itinerant component is responsible for the superconductivity in this compound PACS numbers i  a   y I INTRODUCTION The discovery of superconductivity in heavy fermion HF f electron compounds near a magnetic quantum critical point QCP has stimulated the studies of super conductivity in this class of materials   In these compounds both magnetism and