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TT 25: Correlated Electrons: Quantum-Critical Phenomena 1

TT 25.8: Vortrag

Mittwoch, 28. März 2012, 11:30–11:45, H 3010

Ferromagnetic quantum criticality in the new heavy-fermion system YbNi₄P₂ — •Manuel Brando, Alexander Steppke, Stefan Lausberg, Robert Kuechler, Edit Lengyel, Lucia Steinke, Cornelius Krellner, Robert Borth, Michael Nicklas, Christoph Geibel, and Frank Steglich — Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe Nöthnitzer Str. 40, 01187 Dresden, Germany

We present measurements of the ac-susceptibility, specific heat (C) and thermal expansion (α) on single crystals of the new quasi-one-dimensional heavy-fermion system YbNi₄P₂.
YbNi₄P₂ is a Kondo-lattice system that orders ferromagnetically at a very low temperature T_c = 0.17 K [1]. Ferromagnetism can be suppressed by arsenic substitution x on phosphorus site and a ferromagnetic (FM) quantum critical point (QCP) is approached at x = 0.08.
We provide evidence that such a FM-QCP exists in YbNi₄(P_0.92As_0.08)₂ by showing that (i) the magnetic transition remains ferromagnetic between x = 0 and x = 0.08, (ii) no phase transition nor Fermi-liquid ground state down to 0.02 K can be observed at x = 0.08, and finally (iii) the Grüneisen ratio Γ = α/C strongly diverges [2] with decreasing temperature as Γ ∼ T^−0.3.
Part of this work has been supported by the DFG Research Unit 960 “Quantum Phase Transitions”.
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