From itinerant to local-moment antiferromagnetism in Kondo lattices: Adiabatic continuity versus quantum phase transitions

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Vojta, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

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EID: 52949134136     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.125109     Document Type: Article

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