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We report measurements of in-plane electrical and thermal transport properties in the limit $T \rightarrow 0$ near the unconventional quantum critical point in the heavy-fermion metal $\beta$-YbAlB$_4$. The high Kondo temperature $T_K$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-29 M. L. Sutherland , E. C. T. O'Farrell , W. H. Toews , J. Dunn , K. Kuga , S. Nakatsuji , Y. Machida , K. Izawa , R. W. Hill

A quantum critical point (QCP) represents a continuous phase transition at absolute zero. At the QCP of an unconventional superconductor, enhanced superconducting transition temperature and magnetic fluctuations strength are often observed…

The goal of this paper is to highlight several issues which are most crucial for the understanding of the ``metal-insulator transition'' in two dimensions. We discuss some common problems in interpreting experimental results on high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. L. Altshuler , D. L. Maslov , V. M. Pudalov

Resistivity in the quantum-critical fluctuation region of several metallic compounds such as the cuprates, the heavy-fermions, Fe-chalogenides and pnictides, twisted bi-layer graphene and WSe$_2$, is linear in temperature $T$ as well as in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-01 Chandra M. Varma

In recent years, quantum phase transitions have attracted the interest of both theorists and experimentalists in condensed matter physics. These transitions, which are accessed at zero temperature by variation of a non-thermal control…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthias Vojta

Studying strong electron correlations has been an essential driving force for pushing the frontiers of condensed matter physics. In particular, in the vicinity of correlation-driven quantum phase transitions (QPTs), quantum critical…

The superconductor-insulator transition (SIT) is considered an excellent example of a quantum phase transition which is driven by quantum fluctuations at zero temperature. The quantum critical point is characterized by a diverging…

In the physics of condensed matter, quantum critical phenomena and unconventional superconductivity are two major themes. In electron doped cuprates, the low upper critical field allows one to study the putative QCP at low temperature and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-05-22 P. R. Mandal , Tarapada Sarkar , Richard L. Greene

Quantum criticality describes the collective fluctuations of matter undergoing a second-order phase transition at zero temperature. It is being discussed in a number of strongly correlated electron systems. A prototype case occurs in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-02-28 Qimiao Si

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…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-01-20 S. Paschen , S. Friedemann , S. Wirth , F. Steglich , S. Kirchner , Q. Si

Temperature estimation of interacting quantum many-body systems is both a challenging task and topic of interest in quantum metrology, given that critical behavior at phase transitions can boost the metrological sensitivity. Here we study…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Mei Yu , H. Chau Nguyen , Stefan Nimmrichter

Using determinantal quantum Monte Carlo, we compute the properties of a lattice model with spin $\frac 1 2$ itinerant electrons tuned through a quantum phase transition to an Ising nematic phase. The nematic fluctuations induce…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-24 Samuel Lederer , Yoni Schattner , Erez Berg , Steven A. Kivelson

Strange metals appear in a wide range of correlated materials. Electronic localization-delocalization and the expected loss of quasiparticles characterize beyond-Landau metallic quantum critical points and the associated strange metals.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-29 Chia-Chuan Liu , Silke Paschen , Qimiao Si

Mottness is at the heart of the essential physics in a strongly correlated system as many novel quantum phenomena occur in the metallic phase near the Mott metal-insulator transition. We investigate the Mott transition in a Hubbard model by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-29 Yuekun Niu , Yu Ni , Jianli Wang , Leiming Chen , Ye Xing , Yun Song , Shiping Feng

We present a study of the critical phenomena around the quantum critical point in heavy-fermion systems. In the framework of the S=1/2 Kondo lattice model, we introduce an extended decoupling scheme of the Kondo interaction which allows one…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Lavagna , C. Pépin

We study the temperature dependence of the conductivity due to quantum interference processes for a two-dimensional disordered itinerant electron system close to a ferromagnetic quantum critical point. Near the quantum critical point, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 I. Paul , C. Pépin , B. N. Narozhny , D. L. Maslov

A variety of compounds, for example doped paraelectrics and polar metals, exhibit both ferroelectricity and correlated electronic phenomena such as low-density superconductivity and anomalous transport. Characterizing such properties is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-19 Avraham Klein , Vladyslav Kozii , Jonathan Ruhman , Rafael M. Fernandes

The magnetic insulator copper pyrazine dinitrate comprises antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 chains that are well described by the exactly solvable one-dimensional Heisenberg model, providing a unique opportunity for a quantitative comparison…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-04 Oliver Breunig , Markus Garst , Andreas Klümper , Jens Rohrkamp , Mark M. Turnbull , Thomas Lorenz

Electrical transport properties near an electronic Ising-nematic quantum critical point in two dimensions are of both theoretical and experimental interest. In this work, we derive a kinetic equation valid in a broad regime near the quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-26 Xiaoyu Wang , Erez Berg

We report Knight shift experiments on the superconducting heavy electron material CeCoIn$_5$ that allow one to track with some precision the behavior of the heavy electron Kondo liquid in the superconducting state with results in agreement…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-05 Yi-feng Yang , Ricardo Urbano , Nicholas J. Curro , David Pines