Observation of non-Fermi-liquid behavior in U_{0.2}Y_{0.8}Pd_{3}

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Abstract
We present data for the temperature and magnetic-field dependence of the specific heat, magnetic susceptibility, magnetization, and electrical resistivity of U0.2 Y0.8 Pd3. 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 T1.3. 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.