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Phys Rev Lett. 2011 Apr 15;106(15):156403. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.156403. Epub 2011 Apr 13.

Correlated electron state in Ce(1-x)Yb(x)CoIn5 stabilized by cooperative valence fluctuations.

Physical review letters

L Shu, R E Baumbach, M Janoschek, E Gonzales, K Huang, T A Sayles, J Paglione, J O'Brien, J J Hamlin, D A Zocco, P-C Ho, C A McElroy, M B Maple

Affiliations

  1. Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA.

PMID: 21568584 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.156403

Abstract

X-ray diffraction, electrical resistivity, magnetic susceptibility, and specific heat measurements on Ce(1-x)Yb(x)CoIn5 (0≤x≤1) reveal that many of the characteristic features of the x=0 correlated electron state are stable for x≤0.775 and that phase separation occurs for x>0.775. The stability of the correlated electron state is apparently due to cooperative behavior of the Ce and Yb ions, involving their unstable valences. Low-temperature non-Fermi liquid behavior is observed and varies with x, even though there is no readily identifiable quantum critical point. The superconducting critical temperature T(c) decreases linearly with x towards 0 K as x→1, in contrast with other HF superconductors where T(c) scales with T(coh).

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