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The periodic Anderson model (PAM) captures the essential physics of heavy fermion materials. Yet even for the paramagnetic metallic phase, a practicable many-body theory that can simultaneously handle all energy scales while respecting the…
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The experimental data available up to date in literature corresponding to the paramagnetic - spin density wave transition in nonsuperconducting LaOFeAs are discussed. In particular, we pay attention that upon spin density wave transition…
This paper is a corrected version of Phys. Rev. B 95, 165404 (2017), which we have retracted because it contained a trivial but fatal sign error that lead to incorrect conclusions. --- We extend a recently-eveloped Fermi-liquid (FL) theory…
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