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Non fermi liquid ground states in strongly correlated f-electron materials

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Experimental efforts to characterize and develop an understanding of non Fermi liquid (NFL) behavior at low temperature in f-electron materials are reviewed for three f-electron systems: M1−xUxPd3 (M = Sc, Y), U1−xThxPd2Al3, and UCu5−xPdx. The emerging systematics of NFL behavior in f-electron systems, based on the present sample of nearly ten f-electron systems, is updated. Many of the f-electron systems exhibit the following temperature dependences of the electrical resistivity p, specific heat C, and magnetic susceptibility χ for T ≪ T0, where To is a characteristic temperature: P(T) ∼ 1 –aT/T 0, where a < 0 or > 0, C(T)/T ∼ (-1/T o) In (T/bT 0), and χ(T) ∼ 1 −c(T/To)1/2. In several of the f-electron systems, the characteristic temperature To can be identified with the Kondo temperature Tk.

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  1. Department of Physics and Institute for Pure and Applied Physical Sciences, University of California, 92093-0319, San Diego, La Jolla, CA

    M. B. Maple, M. C. de Andrade, J. Herrmann, Y. Dalichaouch, D. A. Gajewski, C. L. Seaman & R. Chau

  2. Los Alamos National Laboratory, 87545, Los Alamos, NM

    R. Movshovich

  3. The Harrison M. Randall Laboratory of Physics, University of Michigan, 48109-1120, Ann Arbor, MI

    M. C. Aronson

  4. Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 60439, Argonne, IL

    R. Osborn

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Maple, M.B., de Andrade, M.C., Herrmann, J. et al. Non fermi liquid ground states in strongly correlated f-electron materials. J Low Temp Phys 99, 223–249 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00752290

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