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Competition between electronic ground states near a quantum critical point (QCP) - the location of a zero-temperature phase transition driven solely by quantum-mechanical fluctuations - is expected to lead to unconventional behaviour in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 S. E. Sebastian , N. Harrison , C. D. Batista , L. Balicas , M. Jaime , P. A. Sharma , N. Kawashima , I. R. Fisher

The quantum ferromagnetic transition at zero temperature in disordered itinerant electron systems is considered. Nonmagnetic quenched disorder leads to diffusive electron dynamics that induces an effective long-range interaction between the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 T. R. Kirkpatrick , D. Belitz

Deconfined quantum critical point (DQCP) characterizes the continuous transition beyond Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson paradigm, occurring between two phases that exhibit distinct symmetry breaking. The debate over whether genuine DQCP exists in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-06 Xuan Zou , Shuai Yin , Zi-Xiang Li , Hong Yao

A focus of recent experimental and theoretical studies on heavy fermion systems close to antiferromagnetic (AFM) quantum critical points (QCP) is directed toward revealing the nature of the fixed point, i.e., whether it is an itinerant…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Hiroaki Kadowaki , Yoshikazu Tabata , Masugu Sato , Naofumi Aso , Stephane Raymond , Shuzo Kawarazaki

The deconfined quantum critical point (DQCP) -- the enigmatic incarnation of the quantum phase transition beyond the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson paradigm of symmetries and their spontaneous breaking -- has been proposed and actively pursued for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-02 Yuan Da Liao , Gaopei Pan , Weilun Jiang , Yang Qi , Zi Yang Meng

We determine the behavior of the critical temperature of magnetically mediated p-wave superconductivity near a ferromagnetic quantum critical point in three dimensions, distinguishing universal and non-universal aspects of the result. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Roussev , A. J. Millis

Quantum phase transitions arise in many-body systems due to competing interactions that promote rivaling ground states. Recent years have seen the identification of continuous quantum phase transitions, or quantum critical points, in a host…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-02-25 Qimiao Si , Frank Steglich

Near a quantum critical point (QCP) in a metal, strong Fermion-Fermion interactions mediated by soft collective bosons give rise to two competing phenomena: non-Fermi liquid behavior and superconductivity that deviates from conventional BCS…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-24 Ahmed Elezaby , Artem Abanov

Mott quantum criticality is a central theme in correlated electron physics, observed in systems featuring both continuous zero-temperature transitions and those with finite-temperature critical endpoints. Within dynamical mean-field theory…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-17 Sujan K. K. , N. S. Vidhyadhiraja

We report measurements of magnetic quantum oscillations and specific heat at low temperatures across a field-induced antiferromagnetic quantum critical point (QCP)(B_{c0}\approx50T) of the heavy-fermion metal CeRhIn_5. A sharp…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-02-02 L. Jiao , H. Q. Yuan , Y. Kohama , E. D. Bauer , J. -X. Zhu , J. Singleton , T. Shang , J. L. Zhang , Y. Chen , H. O. Lee , T. Park , M. Jaime , J. D. Thompson , F. Steglich , Q. Si

Quantum critical systems derive their finite temperature properties from the influence of a zero temperature quantum phase transition. The paradigm is essential for understanding unconventional high-Tc superconductors and the non-Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-09 A. J. Keller , L. Peeters , C. P. Moca , I. Weymann , D. Mahalu , V. Umansky , G. Zaránd , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

Quantum criticality is a fundamental organizing principle for studying strongly correlated systems. Nevertheless, understanding quantum critical dynamics at nonzero temperatures is a major challenge of condensed matter physics due to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-19 Jianda Wu , Wang Yang , Congjun Wu , Qimiao Si

Spin dynamics evolution of BaFe$_2$(As$_{1-x}$P$_x$)$_2$ was probed as a function of P concentration via $^{31}$P NMR. Our NMR study reveals that two-dimensional antiferromagnetic (AF) fluctuations are notably enhanced with little change in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-17 Y. Nakai , T. Iye , S. Kitagawa , K. Ishida , H. Ikeda , S. Kasahara , H. Shishido , T. Shibauchi , Y. Matsuda , T. Terashima

An enduring question in correlated systems concerns whether superconductivity is favoured at a quantum critical point (QCP) characterised by a divergent quasiparticle effective mass. Despite such a scenario being widely postulated in high…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-12-08 Suchitra E. Sebastian , N. Harrison , M. M. Altarawneh , C. H. Mielke , Ruixing Liang , D. A. Bonn , W. N. Hardy , G. G. Lonzarich

The information-geometric origin of fidelity susceptibility and its utility as a universal probe of quantum criticality in many-body settings have been widely discussed. Here we explore the metric response of quantum relative entropy (QRE),…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-15 Pritam Sarkar , Diptiman Sen , Arnab Sen

Quantum criticality of metal-insulator transitions in correlated electron systems is shownto belong to an unconventional universality class with violation of Ginzburg-Landau-Wilson(GLW) scheme formulated for symmetry breaking transitions.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-10-20 Takahiro Misawa , Masatoshi Imada

In the field of correlated electron materials, the relation between the resonating spin singlet and antiferromagnetic states has long been an attractive topic for understanding of the interesting macroscopic quantum phenomena, such as the…

Quantum criticality describes the collective fluctuations of matter undergoing a second-order phase transition at zero temperature. Heavy fermion metals have in recent years emerged as prototypical systems to study quantum critical points.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-05-24 Philipp Gegenwart , Qimiao Si , Frank Steglich

Upon application of an external tuning parameter, a magnetic state can be driven to a normal metal state at zero temperature. This phenomenon is known as quantum criticality and leads to fascinating responses in thermodynamics and transport…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-07-04 K. B. Efetov , H. Meier , C. Pépin

The twin issues of the nature of the normal state and competing order(s) in the iron arsenides are central to understanding their unconventional, high-Tc superconductivity. We use a combination of transport anisotropy measurements on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-16 S. D. Das , M. S. Laad , L. Craco , J. Gillett , V. Tripathi , S. E. Sebastian