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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 112, Issue 44, Pages 13520-13524Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1509581112
Keywords
Kondo effect; quantum criticality; heavy Fermion; Nozieres exhaustion; anomalous Hall effect
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- Los Alamos Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program
- National Science Foundation of China [11374257, 11190023]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
- National Research Foundation (NRF) - Ministry of Science, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Future Planning of Korea [2012R1A3A2048816]
- US Department of Energy, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering
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The easily tuned balance among competing interactions in Kondo-lattice metals allows access to a zero-temperature, continuous transition between magnetically ordered and disordered phases, a quantum-critical point (QCP). Indeed, these highly correlated electron materials are prototypes for discovering and exploring quantum-critical states. Theoretical models proposed to account for the strange thermodynamic and electrical transport properties that emerge around the QCP of a Kondo lattice assume the presence of an indefinitely large number of itinerant charge carriers. Here, we report a systematic transport and thermodynamic investigation of the Kondo-lattice system CeNi2-delta As2 (delta approximate to 0.28) as its antiferromagnetic order is tuned by pressure and magnetic field to zero-temperature boundaries. These experiments show that the very small but finite carrier density of similar to 0.032 e(-)/formular unit in CeNi2-delta As2 leads to un-expected transport signatures of quantum criticality and the delayed development of a fully coherent Kondo-lattice state with decreasing temperature. The small carrier density and associated semimetallicity of this Kondo-lattice material favor an unconventional, local-moment type of quantum criticality and raises the specter of the Nozieres exhaustion idea that an insufficient number of conduction- electron spins to separately screen local moments requires collective Kondo screening.
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