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Giant electrocaloric (EC) effect is observed in BaTiO3 multilayer thick film structure. The temperature change is as high as 4.0 oC under an applied electric field of 352 kV/cm. Most importantly, the EC effect is found to depend on the…
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The NiTi shape memory alloy exhibited excellent superelastic property and elastocaloric effect. Large temperature changes of 30 K upon loading and -19 K upon unloading were obtained at room temperature, which were higher than those of the…
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Heavy fermion materials gain high electronic masses and expand Fermi surfaces when the high-temperature localized f electrons become itinerant and hybridize with the conduction band at low temperatures. However, despite the common…
Materials exhibiting a large caloric effect could lead to the development of new generation of heat-management technologies that will have better energy efficiency and be potentially more environmentally friendly. The focus of caloric…
Fermi liquid theory forms the basis for our understanding of the majority of metals, which is manifested in the description of transport properties that the electrical resistivity goes as temperature squared in the limit of zero…
We reveal and explain a scaling behavior of the thermopower $S/T$ exhibiting by the archetypical heavy-fermion (HF) metal $\rm{YbRh_2Si_2}$ under the application of magnetic field $B$ at temperatures $T$. We show that the same scaling is…
The ordinary and the extraordinary Hall effects were studied in gradually oxidized amorphous CoFeB ferromagnets over six orders of resistivity from the metallic to the strongly insulating regime. Polarity of the extraordinary Hall effect…
We consider a class of strongly correlated Fermi systems that exhibit an interaction-induced flat band pinned to the Fermi surface, and generalize the Landau strategy to accommodate a flat band and apply the more comprehensive theory to…
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We report an investigation of the low-lying excited states of the YbF molecule--a candidate molecule for experimental measurements of the electron electric dipole moment--with 2-component based multi-reference configuration interaction…
The B-Pt alloy system contains several Pt-rich phases exhibiting complex structures, many with partial site occupation. It also exhibits a deep (nearly 1000 degrees C) eutectic. We evaluate the ab-initio total energies of the crystalline…