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Quantum Phase Transition in $\rm CeCoIn_5$: Experimental Facts and Theory

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2023-11-14 v1

Abstract

Condensed-matter community is involved in hot debate on the nature of quantum critical points (QCP) governing the low-temperature properties of heavy fermion metals. The smeared jump like behavior revealed both in the residual resistivity ρ0\rho_0 and the Hall resistivity RHR_H, along with the violation of the time invariance symmetry T\mathcal{T} and the charge invariance C\mathcal{C}, including the violation of quasiparticle-hole symmetry, and providing vital clues on the origin of both the non-Fermi-liquid behavior and QCP. For the first time, based on a number of important experimental data, we show that these experimental observations point out unambiguously that QCP of CeCoIn5\rm CeCoIn_5 is accompanied by the symmetry violation, and QCP itself is represented by the topological fermion-condensation quantum phase transition (FCQPT) connecting two Fermi surfaces of different topological charges.

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@article{arxiv.2311.07428,
  title  = {Quantum Phase Transition in $\rm CeCoIn_5$: Experimental Facts and Theory},
  author = {V. R. Shaginyan and A. Z. Msezane and M. V. Zverev and Y. S. Leevik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.07428},
  year   = {2023}
}

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7 pages, 8 figures