Acta Physica Polonica B

Vol. 34, No. 2, February 2003, page 379


Non-Fermi Liquid Effects Close to a QCP in CeIn3-xSnx

J. Custers, T. Cichorek, P. Gegenwart, N. Caroca-Canales, O. Stockert, C. Geibel, F. Steglich, P. Pedrazzini, J.G. Sereni

Resistivity and specific heat measurements at low temperatures on CeIn3-xSnx samples with concentrations x=0.6, 0.65 and 0.7 demonstrate that with increasing Sn-alloying, the antiferromagnetic ordering temperature decreases continuously down to T=0 K and disappears at a quantum critical point. We observe non-Fermi liquid (NFL) behavior in the resistivity and the specific heat, however the temperature dependencies are different from the predictions for a spin density wave (SDW) scenario. The resistivity at the critical point shows e.g. , a linear temperature dependence, as expected for two dimensional fluctuations, which however can be excluded in the cubic structure of CeIn3-xSnx.

PACS numbers: 71.27.+a, 71.10.Hf


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