Quantum criticality in layered compared with cubic

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Published 24 September 2009 Europhysics Letters Association
, , Citation J. G. Donath et al 2009 EPL 87 57011 DOI 10.1209/0295-5075/87/57011

0295-5075/87/5/57011

Abstract

We report low-temperature thermal-expansion measurements on single crystals of the layered heavy fermion system CeRhIn5−xSnx (0.3⩽x⩽0.6) and compare it with a previous study on the related cubic system CeIn3−xSnx (Küchler R. et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 96 (2006) 256403). Both systems display a quantum critical point as proven by a divergent Grüneisen ratio. Most remarkably, the three-dimensional itinerant model explains quantum criticality in both systems, suggesting that the crystalline anisotropy in CeRhIn5−xSnx is unimportant. This is ascribed to the effect of weak disorder in these doped systems.

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10.1209/0295-5075/87/57011