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Heavy fermions in transition metals and transition-metal oxides

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Heavy-fermion formation in transition metals and transition-metal oxides is reviewed and compared to observations in canonical f-derived heavy-fermion systems. The work focuses on the dynamic susceptibilities which reveal a characteristic temperature and frequency dependence and which can be unambiguously determined via nuclear magnetic resonance and electron-spin resonance measurements as well as via quasielastic neutron-scattering studies. Different routes to heavy-fermion behaviour are discussed, amongst them Kondo systems, frustrated magnets, and electronically correlated systems close to a metal-insulator transition. From a theoretical point of view, utilizing dynamical mean-field theory, we show that dynamic susceptibilities as calculated for the Hubbard model and for the periodic Anderson model look qualitatively rather similar. These different theoretical concepts describe an universal behaviour of the temperature dependent dynamic susceptibility.

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    H.-A. Krug von Nidda, N. Büttgen, M. Heinrich & A. Loidl

  2. Theoretische Physik III, Elektronische Korrelationen und Magnetismus, Institut für Physik, Universität Augsburg, 86135, Augsburg, Germany

    R. Bulla

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Received: 15 May 2003, Published online: 9 September 2003

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71.27.+a Strongly correlated electron systems; heavy fermions - 71.30.+h Metal-insulator transitions and other electronic transitions - 76.60.-k Nuclear magnetic resonance and relaxation - 76.30.Kg Rare-earth ions and impurities

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Krug von Nidda, HA., Bulla, R., Büttgen, N. et al. Heavy fermions in transition metals and transition-metal oxides. Eur. Phys. J. B 34, 399–407 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2003-00237-9

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