Thermal and electrical transport across a magnetic quantum critical point

Nature

Volumn 484, Issue 7395, 2012, Pages 493-497

  Pfau, Heike ^a   Hartmann, Stefanie ^a,e   Stockert, Ulrike ^a   Sun, Peijie ^a,f   Lausberg, Stefan ^a   Brando, Manuel ^a   Friedemann, Sven ^a   Krellner, Cornelius ^a,g   Geibel, Christoph ^a   Wirth, Steffen ^a   Kirchner, Stefan ^a,b   Abrahams, Elihu ^c   Si, Qimiao ^d   Steglich, Frank ^a,g  

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

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Materials Research   (Germany)

^f INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; FERMION; HEAT TOLERANCE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC QUANTUM CRITICAL POINT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84860228253     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11072     Document Type: Article

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