YbCo2Ge4 is a clean paramagnetic Kondo lattice which displays non-Fermi liquid behavior. We report a detailed investigation of the specific heat, magnetic Gr\"uneisen parameter (Γmag) and temperature derivative of the magnetization (M) on a high-quality single crystal at temperatures down to 0.1~K and magnetic fields up to 7~T. Γmag and dM/dT display a divergence upon cooling and obey T/B scaling. Similar behavior has previously been found in several other Yb-based Kondo lattices and related to a zero-field quantum critical point without fine tuning of pressure or composition. However, in the approach of B→0 the electronic heat capacity coefficient of YbCo2Ge4 saturates at low T, excluding ferromagnetic quantum criticality. This indicates that T/B scaling is insufficient to prove a zero-field quantum critical point.
@article{arxiv.1605.00896,
title = {T/B scaling without quasiparticle mass divergence: YbCo2Ge4},
author = {A. Sakai and K. Kitagawa and K. Matsubayashi and M. Iwatani and P. Gegenwart},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.00896},
year = {2016}
}