Observation of an optical pseudogap in UPt3

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Donovan, S
Schwartz, A
Gruner, G
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[1] Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.1401
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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We report on the observation of a pseudogap at low temperatures in the heavy fermion compound UPt3, together with a renormalized low frequency Drude response. The gap energy, in units of (h) over bar omega/k(B), is comparable to the temperature where the magnetic correlations develop, 5 K, and the pseudogap progressively disappears above this temperature.
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