Closing the spin gap in the Kondo insulator Ce3Bi4Pt3 at high magnetic fields

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6783, 2000, Pages 160-163

  Jaime, Marcelo ^a   Movshovich, Roman ^a   Stewart, Gregory R ^b   Beyermann, Ward P ^c   Berisso, Mariano Gomez ^d   Hundley, Michael F ^a   Canfield, Paul C ^e   Sarrao, John L ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CENTRO ATÓMICO BARILOCHE   (Argentina)

^e IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENERGY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATERIALS; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0034636559     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35012027     Document Type: Article

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