Exploring heavy fermions from macroscopic to microscopic length scales

S Wirth, F Steglich - Nature Reviews Materials, 2016 - nature.com
Strongly correlated systems present fundamental challenges, especially in materials in
which electronic correlations cause a strong increase of the effective mass of the charge …

Kondo destruction and quantum criticality in Kondo lattice systems

Q Si, JH Pixley, E Nica, SJ Yamamoto… - Journal of the Physical …, 2014 - journals.jps.jp
Considerable efforts have been made in recent years to theoretically understand quantum
phase transitions in Kondo lattice systems. A particular focus is on Kondo destruction, which …

Foundations of heavy-fermion superconductivity: lattice Kondo effect and Mott physics

F Steglich, S Wirth - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
This article overviews the development of heavy-fermion superconductivity, notably in such
rare-earth-based intermetallic compounds which behave as Kondo-lattice systems. Heavy …

Quantum impurity model for two-stage multipolar ordering and Fermi surface reconstruction

DJ Schultz, SE Han, YB Kim - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Classification and understanding of quantum phase transitions and critical phenomena in
itinerant electron systems are outstanding questions in quantum materials research. Recent …

Heavy fermion behavior in the quasi-one-dimensional Kondo lattice CeCo2Ga8

L Wang, Z Fu, J Sun, M Liu, W Yi, C Yi, Y Luo… - npj Quantum …, 2017 - nature.com
Dimensionality plays an essential role in determining the anomalous non-Fermi liquid
properties in heavy fermion systems. So far most heavy fermion compounds are quasi-two …

Non-Fermi liquid behavior and quantum criticality in cubic heavy fermion systems with non-Kramers multipolar local moments

SE Han, DJ Schultz, YB Kim - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Notable non-Fermi liquid and quantum critical behaviors are observed in rare-earth metallic
systems with non-Kramers local moments supporting a number of different multipolar …

Quantum critical scaling and fluctuations in Kondo lattice materials

Y Yang, D Pines, G Lonzarich - Proceedings of the National …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
We propose a phenomenological framework for three classes of Kondo lattice materials that
incorporates the interplay between the fluctuations associated with the antiferromagnetic …

Interplay between unconventional superconductivity and heavy-fermion quantum criticality: CeCu2Si2 versus YbRh2Si2

M Smidman, O Stockert, J Arndt, GM Pang… - Philosophical …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper the low-temperature properties of two isostructural canonical heavy-fermion
compounds are contrasted with regards to the interplay between antiferromagnetic (AF) …

Unconventional superconductivity in the Kondo-lattice system CeCuSi -- a personal perspective

F Steglich - arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.11162, 2023 - arxiv.org
In the first part of this article, I briefly review early research activities concerning strongly
correlated electron systems, beginning with the discovery of superconductivity and the first …

Nuclear-Order-Induced Quantum Criticality and Heavy-Fermion Superconductivity at Ultra-low Temperatures in YbRh2Si2

E Schuberth, S Wirth, F Steglich - Frontiers in Electronic Materials, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The tetragonal heavy-fermion metal YbRh2Si2 orders antiferromagnetically at TN= 70 mK
and exhibits an unconventional quantum critical point (QCP) of Kondo-destroying type at …