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Weak magnetoresistance of disordered heavy fermion systems

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We compare the magnetoresistance of UCu3.5_{3.5}Pd1.5_{1.5} with calculations done within the disordered heavy fermion framework of Miranda et al. using a phenomenological spectral function for the Anderson model, calibrated against Bethe ansatz and quantum Monte Carlo results. Both in experiment and theory, we find a weak negative magnetoresistance. In contrast, thermodynamic quantities have a strong field dependence. Using qualitative arguments broad distribution of Kondo scales, we explain the different field dependence of susceptibility and resistivity.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9805127,
  title  = {Weak magnetoresistance of disordered heavy fermion systems},
  author = {A. Chattopadhyay and M. Jarrell and H. R. Krishnamurthy and H. K. Ng and J. Sarrao and Z. Fisk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9805127},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures