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We report specific heat measurements in a broad temperature range between 0.06 and 20 K on single crystalline CeRu2Si2 in magnetic fields applied parallel to the c-direction around the critical field B M , where the metamagnetic transition from the itinerant to the localized state takes place. In the critical field B M ∥ c=7.8 T a distinct deviation from the usual Fermi- liquid behavior is found down to our lowest temperature. Below 1.8 K C/T varies as (1−aT), while for 1.8 K<T<20 K a power law T λ−1 with λ=0.66 is found. Small deviations from the critical magnetic field leads to the recovery of a Fermi-liquid ground state. The observed behavior of the specific heat at the field induced magnetic instability is discussed in the context of a non-Fermi-liquid state and compared with those for the field-induced nFl CeCu6−x Ag x and the recent observation of nFl behavior at B M in UPt3.
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Heuser, K., Scheidt, EW., Schreiner, T. et al. Low Temperature Specific Heat of CeRu2Si2 at the Field Induced Metamagnetic Instability. Journal of Low Temperature Physics 118, 235–239 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004651225026
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