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Transition from non Fermi Liquid Behavior to Landau Fermi Liquid Behavior Induced by Magnetic Fields

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2009-11-07 v2

Abstract

We show that a strongly correlated Fermi system with the fermion condensate, which exhibits strong deviations from Landau Fermi liquid behavior, is driven into the Landau Fermi liquid by applying a small magnetic field BB at temperature T=0. This field-induced Landau Fermi liquid behavior provides the constancy of the Kadowaki-Woods ratio. A reentrance into the strongly correlated regime is observed if the magnetic field BB decreases to zero, then the effective mass MM^* diverges as M1/BM^*\propto 1/\sqrt{B}. At finite temperatures, the strongly correlated regime is restored at some temperature TBT^*\propto\sqrt{B}. This behavior is of general form and takes place in both three dimensional and two dimensional strongly correlated systems. We demonstrate that the observed 1/B1/\sqrt{B} divergence of the effective mass and other specific features of heavy-fermion metals are accounted for by our consideration.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0209503,
  title  = {Transition from non Fermi Liquid Behavior to Landau Fermi Liquid Behavior Induced by Magnetic Fields},
  author = {Yu. G. Pogorelov and V. R. Shaginyan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0209503},
  year   = {2009}
}

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8 pages, Revtex