Quantum critical state in a magnetic quasicrystal

Nature Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1013-1016

  Deguchi, Kazuhiko ^a   Matsukawa, Shuya ^a   Sato, Noriaki K ^a   Hattori, Taisuke ^b   Ishida, Kenji ^b   Takakura, Hiroyuki ^c   Ishimasa, Tsutomu ^c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4F-ELECTRONS; APERIODIC STRUCTURE; APPROXIMANTS; CHARACTERISTIC PROPERTIES; CRITICAL PHENOMENON; CRITICAL STATE; ELECTRONIC SPECIFIC HEAT COEFFICIENT; GEOMETRIC STRUCTURE; GOLDEN RATIO; ICOSAHEDRAL CLUSTERS; METALLIC ALLOYS; QUANTUM CRITICAL; QUANTUM CRITICAL PHENOMENA; QUANTUM CRITICALITY; UNIT CELLS;

ATOMS; CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); CRYSTALS; ELECTRONIC STATES; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; YTTERBIUM;

QUASICRYSTALS;

EID: 84870066193     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3432     Document Type: Article

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