On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the first observation of Ce volume collapse in CeN a remembrance of the implications of that transcendent event is presented, along with a review of the knowledge of Ce physical properties available at that time. Coincident anniversary corresponds to the first proposal for Ce as a mix valence element, motivating to briefly review how the valence instability of Ce was investigated since that time.
@article{arxiv.1712.10036,
title = {First observation of Ce volume collapse in CeN},
author = {Julian G. Sereni},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.10036},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
This review was presented in a plenary session at the SCES 2017 conference, Prague, 17 July 2017