Quantum critical point scenarios in heavy-fermion systems

• Applicants: Professor Dr. Philipp Gegenwart; Professor Dr. Frank Steglich
• Subject Area: Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
• Term: from 2007 to 2015
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 48554140

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Publications

• Quantum criticality in heavy-fermion metals, Nature Phys. 4, 186 (2008)
  P. Gegenwart, Q. Si, and F. Steglich
  
• Detaching the antiferromagnetic quantum critical point from the Fermi surface reconstruction in YbRh2Si2, Nature Phys. 5, 465 (2009)
  S. Friedemann, T. Westerkamp, M. Brando, N. Oeschler, S. Wirth, P. Gegenwart, C. Krellner, C. Geibel, and F. Steglich
  
• Divergence of the Magnetic Grueneisen Ratio at the Field-Induced Quantum Critical Point in YbRh2Si2, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 066401 (2009)
  Y. Tokiwa, T. Radu, C. Geibel, F. Steglich, and P. Gegenwart
  
• Avoided Ferromagnetic Quantum Critical Point: Unusual Short- Range Ordered State in CeFePO, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 216402 (2012)
  S. Lausberg, J. Spehling, A. Steppke, A. Jesche, H. Luetkens, A. Amato, C. Baines, C. Krellner, M. Brando, C. Geibel, H. H. Klauss, and F. Steglich
  
• Thermal and electrical transport across a magnetic quantum critical point, Nature 484, 493 (2012)
  H. Pfau, S. Hartmann, U. Stockert, P. Sun, S. Lausberg, M. Brando, S. Friedemann, C. Krellner, C. Geibel, S. Wirth, S. Kirchner, E. Abrahams, Q. Si, and F. Steglich
  
• Anomalous Reduction of the Lorenz Ratio at the Quantum Critical Point in YbAgGe, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 176402 (2013)
  J. K. Dong, Y. Tokiwa, S. L. Bud'ko, P. C. Canfield, and P. Gegenwart
  
• Ferromagnetic Quantum Critical Point in the Heavy-Fermion Metal YbNi4(P1-xAsx)2, Science 339, 933 (2013)
  A. Steppke, R. Kuechler, S. Lausberg, E. Lengyel, L. Steinke, R. Borth, T. Luehmann, C. Krellner, M. Nicklas, C. Geibel, F. Steglich and M. Brando
  
• Interplay between Kondo Suppression and Lifshitz Transitions in YbRh2Si2 at High Magnetic Fields, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 256403 (2013)
  H. Pfau, R. Daou, S. Lausberg, H. R. Naren, M. Brando, S. Friedemann, S. Wirth, T. Westerkamp, U. Stockert, P. Gegenwart, C. Krellner, C. Geibel, G. Zwicknagl, and F. Steglich
  
• Quantum Bicriticality in the Heavy- Fermion Metamagnet YbAgGe, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 116401 (2013)
  Y. Tokiwa, M. Garst, P. Gegenwart, S. L. Bud'ko, and P. C. Canfield
  
• Quantum criticality in a metallic spin liquid, Nature Mat. 13, 356 (2014)
  Y. Tokiwa, J. J. Ishikawa, S. Nakatsuji, and P. Gegenwart