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American Physical Society, Physical review B, 16(84), 2011

DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.84.161101

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Evidence of a hidden-order pseudogap state in URu2Si2using ultrafast optical spectroscopy

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Abstract

Ultrafast optical spectroscopy was utilized to investigate carrier dynamics in the heavy-fermion compound URu2Si2 from 5 to 300 K. The amplitude and decay time of the photoinduced reflectivity increase in the vicinity of the coherence temperature T* similar to 57 K, consistent with the presence of a hybridization gap. At 25 K, a crossover regime manifests as a new feature in the carrier dynamics saturating below the hidden-order transition temperature of 17.5 K. This is indicative of a psuedogap region (17.5 K < T < 25 K) separating the normal Kondo-lattice state from the hidden-order phase. Rothwarf-Taylor modeling of the data yields values of similar to 10 meV (5 meV) for the hybridization gap (hidden-order gap).