Superconductivity and quantum criticality in the heavy-fermion system |[beta]|-YbAlB4

By S. Nakatsuji, K. Kuga, Y. Machida, T. Tayama, T. Sakakibara, Y. Karaki, H. Ishimoto, S. Yonezawa, Y. Maeno, E. Pearson and 4 more. 2008

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A long-sought ytterbium-based heavy-fermion superconductor—a hole analogue of the cerium-based systems—has been found. Moreover, there is evidence for a quantum critical point at ambient conditions and without chemical doping.

Subfields: Condensed Matter Physics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

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Citations in the corpus

• Superconducting phases of f -electron compounds (2009, background): “For instance, superconductivity has recently been reported in the Yb-boride β-YbAlB4 (Nakatsuji et al., 2008) and pure Eu metal (Debessai et al., 2009).”
• Translationally Invariant Non-Fermi-Liquid Metals with Critical Fermi Surfaces: Solvable Models (2018, background): “liquid quantum phases have also been reported in correlated mixed-valence materials [26, 27].”