Nature Communications (Jun 2020)
Devil's staircase transition of the electronic structures in CeSb
- Kenta Kuroda,
- Y. Arai,
- N. Rezaei,
- S. Kunisada,
- S. Sakuragi,
- M. Alaei,
- Y. Kinoshita,
- C. Bareille,
- R. Noguchi,
- M. Nakayama,
- S. Akebi,
- M. Sakano,
- K. Kawaguchi,
- M. Arita,
- S. Ideta,
- K. Tanaka,
- H. Kitazawa,
- K. Okazaki,
- M. Tokunaga,
- Y. Haga,
- S. Shin,
- H. S. Suzuki,
- R. Arita,
- Takeshi Kondo
Affiliations
- Kenta Kuroda
- ISSP, University of Tokyo
- Y. Arai
- ISSP, University of Tokyo
- N. Rezaei
- Department of Physics, Isfahan University of Technology
- S. Kunisada
- ISSP, University of Tokyo
- S. Sakuragi
- ISSP, University of Tokyo
- M. Alaei
- Department of Physics, Isfahan University of Technology
- Y. Kinoshita
- ISSP, University of Tokyo
- C. Bareille
- ISSP, University of Tokyo
- R. Noguchi
- ISSP, University of Tokyo
- M. Nakayama
- ISSP, University of Tokyo
- S. Akebi
- ISSP, University of Tokyo
- M. Sakano
- ISSP, University of Tokyo
- K. Kawaguchi
- ISSP, University of Tokyo
- M. Arita
- Hiroshima Synchrotron Center, Hiroshima University
- S. Ideta
- UVSOR Facility, Institute for Molecular Science
- K. Tanaka
- UVSOR Facility, Institute for Molecular Science
- H. Kitazawa
- National Institute for Materials Science
- K. Okazaki
- ISSP, University of Tokyo
- M. Tokunaga
- ISSP, University of Tokyo
- Y. Haga
- Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency
- S. Shin
- ISSP, University of Tokyo
- H. S. Suzuki
- ISSP, University of Tokyo
- R. Arita
- Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo
- Takeshi Kondo
- ISSP, University of Tokyo
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16707-6
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
CeSb undergoes a devil’s staircase sequence of extremely long-period modulations of the magnetically ordered 4f states. Here, the authors visualize how the devil’s staircase ordering impacts mobile electrons and collapses the well-defined band picture at the Fermi energy.
