Non-Fermi Liquid Behavior and Griffiths Phase in-Electron Compounds
- 19 October 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 81 (16), 3531-3534
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.81.3531
Abstract
We study the interplay among disorder, RKKY, and Kondo interactions in -electron alloys. We argue that the non-Fermi liquid behavior observed in these systems is due to the existence of a Griffiths phase close to a quantum critical point. The existence of this phase provides a unified picture of a large class of materials. We also propose new experiments that can test these ideas.
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