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Nature of the quantum critical point as disclosed by extraordinary behavior of magnetotransport and the lorentz number in the heavy-fermion metal YbRh2Si2

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Physicists are engaged in vigorous debate on the nature of the quantum critical points (QCP) governing the low-temperature properties of heavy-fermion metals. Recent experimental observations of the much-studied compound YbRh2Si2 in the regime of vanishing temperature incisively probe the nature of its magnetic-field-tuned QCP. The jumps revealed both in the residual resistivity ρ0 and the Hall resistivity R H, along with violation of the Wiedemann-Franz law, provide vital clues to the origin of such non-Fermi-liquid behavior. The empirical facts point unambiguously to association of the observed QCP with a fermion-condensation phase transition. Based on this insight, the resistivities ρ0 and R H are predicted to show jumps at the crossing of the QCP produced by application of a magnetic field, with attendant violation of the Wiedemann-Franz law. It is further demonstrated that experimentally identifiable multiple energy scales are related to the scaling behavior of the effective mass of the quasiparticles responsible for the low-temperature properties of such heavy-fermion metals.

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  1. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, 188300, Russia

    V. R. Shaginyan

  2. Clark Atlanta University, GA, 30314, Atlanta, USA

    V. R. Shaginyan & A. Z. Msezane

  3. Komi Science Center, Ural Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar, 167982, Russia

    K. G. Popov

  4. McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences and Department of Physics, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 63130, USA

    J. W. Clark & V. A. Khodel

  5. National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, 123182, Russia

    M. V. Zverev & V. A. Khodel

  6. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, 123098, Russia

    M. V. Zverev

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Shaginyan, V.R., Msezane, A.Z., Popov, K.G. et al. Nature of the quantum critical point as disclosed by extraordinary behavior of magnetotransport and the lorentz number in the heavy-fermion metal YbRh2Si2 . Jetp Lett. 96, 397–404 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364012180105

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