Magnetic field splitting of the spin-resonance in CeCoIn5

Abstract

Neutron scattering in strong magnetic fields is used to show the spin-resonance in superconducting CeCoIn5 (Tc=2.3 K) is a doublet. The underdamped resonance (\hbar Γ=0.069 \pm 0.019 meV) Zeeman splits into two modes at E_{\pm}=\hbar Ω_{0}\pm gμ_{B} μ_{0}H with g=0.96 \pm 0.05. A linear extrapolation of the lower peak reaches zero energy at 11.2 \pm 0.5 T, near the critical field for the incommensurate "Q-phase" indicating that the Q-phase is a bose condensate of spin excitons.

5 pages, 4 figures