Acta Physica Polonica B

Vol. 34, No. 2, February 2003, page 391


Pre-Critical Fluctuations in Heavy Fermions

P. Schlottmann

Itinerant antiferromagnetic order can gradually be suppressed by mismatching the nesting of the Fermi surfaces and a quantum critical point is obtained as TN \to 0. Within a renormalization group approach we study the instabilities to spin- and charge-density waves and superconductivity, the low-T specific heat and the magnetic susceptibility. All quantities increase on a logarithmic scale when T is lowered, similar to the non-Fermi-liquid behavior observed in some heavy fermion compounds.

PACS numbers: 71.27.+a, 71.28.+d, 72.15.Qm, 75.20.Hr


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