Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior in Metallic Quasicrystals with Local Magnetic Moments

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Contributors

  • Eric C. Andrade - , Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (Author)
  • Anuradha Jagannathan - , Universite Paris-Sud (Author)
  • Eduardo Miranda - , Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Author)
  • Matthias Vojta - , Chair of Theoretical Solid State Physics (Author)
  • Vladimir Dobrosavljević - , Florida State University (Author)

Abstract

Motivated by the intrinsic non-Fermi-liquid behavior observed in the heavy-fermion quasicrystal Au51Al34Yb15, we study the low-temperature behavior of dilute magnetic impurities placed in metallic quasicrystals. We find that a large fraction of the magnetic moments are not quenched down to very low temperatures T, leading to a power-law distribution of Kondo temperatures P(TK)∼TKα-1, with a nonuniversal exponent α, in a remarkable similarity to the Kondo-disorder scenario found in disordered heavy-fermion metals. For α<1, the resulting singular P(TK) induces non-Fermi-liquid behavior with diverging thermodynamic responses as T→0.

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Original languageEnglish
Article number036403
JournalPhysical review letters
Volume115
Issue number3
Publication statusPublished - 14 Jul 2015
Peer-reviewedYes

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