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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 105, Issue 18, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.186403
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- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [20102008, 21740240] Funding Source: KAKEN
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It is shown that unconventional critical phenomena commonly observed in paramagnetic metals YbRh2Si2, YbRh2(Si0.95Ge0.05)(2), and beta-YbAlB4 are naturally explained by the quantum criticality of Yb-valence fluctuations. We construct the mode-coupling theory taking account of local correlation effects of f electrons and find that unconventional criticality is caused by the locality of the valence fluctuation mode. We show that measured low-temperature anomalies such as divergence of uniform spin susceptibility chi similar to T-zeta with zeta similar to 0.6 giving rise to a huge enhancement of the Wilson ratio and the emergence of T-linear resistivity are explained in a unified way.
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