Observation of non-Fermi-liquid behavior in U_{0.2}Y_{0.8}Pd_{3}
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- 11 November 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 67 (20) , 2886-2889
Abstract
We present data for the temperature and magnetic-field dependence of the specific heat, magnetic susceptibility, magnetization, and electrical resistivity of . The data demonstrate the scaling behavior of the thermodynamic quantities at temperatures up to 10 K and magnetic fields up to 14 T. The magnetic field scales as . The zero-field specific heat varies with temperature as -T lnT. The magnetic field strongly affects the thermodynamics, but the magnetoresistance is very small (-2% at T=0.36 K and H=14 T). We argue that our data are inconsistent with any single-impurity interpretation. We suggest that the system has a second-order phase transition at T=0.
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