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Unconventional quantum criticality in the pressure-induced heavy-fermion superconductor cerhin5

  • Tuson Park
  • , V. A. Sidorov
  • , Y. Lee
  • , Y. Ronning
  • , E. D. Bauer
  • , J. L. Sarrao
  • , J. D. Thompson
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Russian Academy of Sciences

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Abstract

The lack of superconductivity in several candidate materials that exhibit a non-spin density wave quantum critical point has raised the question of whether the associated spectra of quantum fluctuations are beneficial toforming superconducting electron pairs. Here we discuss the possibility that the prototypical heavy-fermion antiferromagnet CeRhIn5 may be the first example of unconventional superconductors where superconductivity arises from Kondo-breakdown quantum criticality.

Original languageEnglish
Article number094218
JournalJournal of Physics Condensed Matter
Volume23
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - 9 Mar 2011

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