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The temperature ($T$)-magnetic field ($H$) phase diagram of YbRh$_2$Si$_2$ in the vicinity of its quantum critical point is investigated by low-$T$ magnetization measurements. Our analysis reveals that the energy scale $T^\star(H)$,…
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Heavy fermion metals provide a prototype setting to study quantum criticality. Experimentally, quantum critical points have been identified and studied in a growing list of heavy fermion compounds. Theoretically, Kondo destruction has…
Dependence of transport coefficients of the Yb(Rh$_{1-x}$Co$_x$)$_2$Si$_2$ series of alloys on temperature and cobalt concentration is explained by an asymmetric Anderson model which takes into account the exchange scattering of conduction…
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