Non-Fermi-liquid behaviour of U<sub>3-x</sub>Ni<sub>3</sub>Sn<sub>4-y</sub> single crystals
L Shlyk; J C Waerenborgh; P Estrela; L E De Long; A de Visser; M Almeida
Журнал:
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
Дата:
1999-05-03
Аннотация:
U<sub>3</sub>Ni<sub>3</sub>Sn<sub>4</sub> and U<sub>2.9</sub>Ni<sub>3.0</sub>Sn<sub>3.9</sub> single crystals exhibit a non-Fermi-liquid susceptibility T<sup>-0.3</sup> between 1.7 and 10 K. The electronic heat capacity coefficient (T) of U<sub>2.9</sub>Ni<sub>3.0</sub>Sn<sub>3.9</sub> varies as the square root of temperature between 0.3 and 5 K. Although most available non-Fermi-liquid models are in disagreement with these results, the heat capacity data are consistent with a renormalization group calculation for magnetic fluctuations near an antiferromagnetic quantum critical point (QCP). Alternatively, both the magnetic and heat capacity data can be fitted to a Griffiths-phase model for magnetic clusters near a QCP, using a single characteristic exponent = 0.7.
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