Published September 1999 | Version v1
Journal article

Crystal Field Triplets: A New Route to Non-Fermi-Liquid Physics

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, California 95616 (United States)
  • 2. Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physics, TU Budapest, H-1521 (Hungary)

Description

A model for crystal field triplet ground states of rare earth or actinide ions with dipolar and quadrupolar couplings to conduction electrons is studied for the first time with renormalization group methods. The quadrupolar coupling leads to a new nontrivial, non-Fermi-liquid fixed point, which survives in an intermediate valence Anderson model. The calculated magnetic susceptibility displays one parameter scaling, going as T-α (α∼0.4 ) at intermediate temperatures, reminiscent of the non-Fermi-liquid alloy UCu5-x Pdx . copyright 1999 The American Physical Society

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Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
83
Journal Issue
12
Journal Page Range
p. 2421-2424
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO