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A strange way to get a strange metal

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Some cerium and uranium compounds exhibit unusual transport properties due to localized electron states. Recent experiments demonstrate that quantum interference on frustrated lattices provides an alternative route to this behaviour.

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Fig. 1: Two ways to produce heavy-fermion states.

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Meier, W.R. A strange way to get a strange metal. Nat. Phys. 20, 541–542 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-024-02416-0

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