Divergence of the Grüneisen Ratio at Quantum Critical Points in Heavy Fermion Metals

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Kuchler R ^a   Oeschler, N ^a   Gegenwart, P ^a   Cichorek, T ^a   Neumaier, K ^b   Tegus, O ^c   Geibel, C ^a   Mydosh, J A ^a,d   Steglich, F ^a   Zhu, L ^e   Si, Q ^e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL PHYSICS OF SOLIDS   (Germany)

^b WALTHER MEISSNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERIUM COMPOUNDS; FERMIONS; HEAVY METALS; LOW TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; THERMAL EXPANSION; YTTERBIUM COMPOUNDS;

CERIUM NICKEL GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS; GRUNEISEN RATIO; QUANTUM CRITICAL POINTS; SPIN DENSITY WAVES; YTTERBIUM RHODIUM COMPOUNDS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0141818281     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.066405     Document Type: Article

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