Break up of heavy fermions at an antiferromagnetic instability

Details Break up of heavy fermions at an antiferromagnetic instability Break up of heavy fermions at an antiferromagnetic instability

2010-10-17

arxiv.org/abs/1010.3441v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

minor changes, accepted for publication in JPSJ

Scientific paper

We present results of high-resolution, low-temperature measurements of the Hall coefficient, thermopower, and specific heat on stoichiometric YbRh2Si2. They support earlier conclusions of an electronic (Kondo-breakdown) quantum critical point concurring with a field induced antiferromagnetic one. We also discuss the detachment of the two instabilities under chemical pressure. Volume compression/expansion (via substituting Rh by Co/Ir) results in a stabilization/weakening of magnetic order. Moderate Ir substitution leads to a non-Fermi-liquid phase, in which the magnetic moments are neither ordered nor screened by the Kondo effect. The so-derived zero-temperature global phase diagram promises future studies to explore the nature of the Kondo breakdown quantum critical point without any interfering magnetism.

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