Speaker
Description
Heavy fermion compounds are strongly correlated systems with partially filled 4f or 5f electron bands. The ground states of heavy fermion materials are determined by a competition between the on-site Kondo interaction that screens the local 4f or 5f magnetic moments and the inter-site Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida exchange interaction. Muon spin rotation and relaxation ($\mu$SR) techniques have been used for decades to investigate these ground states. In recent years we have applied $\mu$SR to the study of two heavy-fermion compounds of special interest, namely, the candidate topological Kondo insulator SmB6 and the rare spin-triplet superconductor UTe2. In this talk I will describe some of our experiments on these compounds and forthcoming $\mu$SR capabilities at TRIUMF.
| Keyword-1 | Heavy fermion compounds |
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| Keyword-2 | Muon spin rotation/relaxation |
