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A. Z. Msezane

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arXiv2013

Common quantum phase transition in quasicrystals and heavy-fermion metals

Extraordinary new materials named quasicrystals and characterized by noncrystallographic rotational symmetry and quasiperiodic translational properties have attracted scrutiny. Study of quasicrystals may shed light on the most basic notions related to the quantum critical state observed in heavy-fermion metals. We show that the electronic system of some quasicrystals is located at the fermion condensation quantum phase transition without tuning. In that case the quasicrystals possess the quantum critical state with the non-Fermi liquid behavior which in magnetic fields transforms into the Landau Fermi-liquid one. Remarkably, the quantum critical state is robust despite the strong disorder experienced by the electrons. We also demonstrate for the first time that quasicrystals exhibit the typical scaling behavior of their thermodynamic properties such as the magnetic susceptibility, and belong to the famous family of heavy-fermion metals. Our calculated thermodynamic properties are in good agreement with recent experimental observations.

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arXiv2012

Nature of the quantum critical point as disclosed by extraordinary behavior of magnetotransport and the Lorentz number in the heavy-fermion metal YbRh2Si2

Physicists are engaged in vigorous debate on the nature of the quantum critical points (QCP) governing the low-temperature properties of heavy-fermion (HF) metals. Recent experimental observations of the much-studied compound YbRh2Si2 in the regime of vanishing temperature incisively probe the nature of its magnetic-field-tuned QCP. The jumps revealed both in the residual resistivity rho_0 and the Hall resistivity R_H, along with violation of the Wiedemann-Franz law, provide vital clues to the origin of such non-Fermi-liquid behavior. The empirical facts point unambiguously to association of the observed QCP with a fermion-condensation phase transition. Based on this insight, the resistivities rho_0 and R_H are predicted to show jumps at the crossing of the QCP produced by application of a magnetic field, with attendant violation of the Wiedemann-Franz law. It is further demonstrated that experimentally identifiable multiple energy scales are related to the scaling behavior of the effective mass of the quasiparticles responsible for the low-temperature properties of such HF metals.

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arXiv2012

Challenging Magnetic Field Dependence of the Residual Resistivity of the Heavy-Fermion Metal CeCoIn5

An explanation of paradoxical behavior of the residual resistivity rho_0 of the heavy-fermion metal CeCoIn5 in magnetic fields and under pressure is developed. The source of this behavior is identified as a flattening of the single-particle spectrum, which exerts profound effects on the specific heat, thermal expansion coefficient, and magnetic susceptibility in the normal state, the specific heat jump at the point of superconducting phase transition, and other properties of strongly correlated electron systems in solids. It is shown that application of a magnetic field or pressure to a system possessing a flat band leads to a strong suppression of rho_0. Analysis of its measured thermodynamic and transport properties yields direct evidence for the presence of a flat band in CeCoIn5.

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arXiv2012

Scaling in Dynamic Susceptibility of Herbertsmithite and Heavy-Fermion Metals

We present a theory of the dynamic magnetic susceptibility of quantum spin liquid. The obtained results are in good agreement with experimental facts collected on herbertsmithite ZnCu3(OH)6Cl2 and on heavy-fermion metals, and allow us to predict a new scaling in magnetic fields in the dynamic susceptibility. Under the application of strong magnetic fields quantum spin liquid becomes completely polarized. We show that this polarization can be viewed as a manifestation of gapped excitations when investigating the spin-lattice relaxation rate.

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arXiv2011

Self-intersecting Regge trajectories in multi-channel scattering

We present a simple direct method for calculating Regge trajectories for a multichannel scattering problem. The approach is applied to the case of two coupled Thomas-Fermi type potentials, used as a crude model for electron-atom scattering below the second excitation threshold. It is shown that non-adiabatic interaction may cause formation of loops in Regge trajectories. The accuracy of the method is tested by evaluating resonance contributions to elastic and inelastic integral cross sections.

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arXiv2011

Identification of Strongly Correlated Spin Liquid in Herbertsmithite

Exotic quantum spin liquid (QSL) is formed with such hypothetic particles as fermionic spinons carrying spin 1/2 and no charge. Here we calculate its thermodynamic and relaxation properties. Our calculations unveil the fundamental properties of QSL, forming strongly correlated Fermi system located at a fermion condensation quantum phase transition. These are in a good agreement with experimental data and allow us to detect the behavior of QSL as that observed in heavy fermion metals. We predict that the thermal resistivity of QSL under the application of magnetic fields at fixed temperature demonstrates a very specific behavior. The key features of our findings are the presence of spin-charge separation and QSL formed with itinerant heavy spinons in herbertsmithite.

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arXiv2011

Multiple anion formation in low energy electron collisions with Tl atoms: Regge-pole prediction

The complex angular momentum (CAM) calculated low-energy 0 < E < 5 eV electron elastic total cross section (TCS) for In is benchmarked through its recently measured electron affinity (Walter et al, Phys. Rev. A 82, 032507 (2010)). The TCSs for Tl and Ga atoms are then calculated using the CAM method. From the dramatically sharp resonances in the TCSs binding energies for Tl^{-} and Ga^{-} negative ions formed during the collisions are extracted and compared with existing values. Three stable bound negative ions of Tl are predicted.

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arXiv2011

Baryon asymmetry resulting from a quantum phase transition in the early universe

A novel mechanism for explaining the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe is considered. We assume that the universe starts from completely symmetric state and then, as it cools down, it undergoes a quantum-phase transition which in turn causes an asymmetry between matter and anti-matter. The mechanism does not require the baryon number violating interactions or CP violation at a microscopic level. Our analysis of the matter-antimatter asymmetry is in the context of conspicuous experimental results obtained in the condensed-matter physics.

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arXiv2011

Thermodynamic Properties of Kagome Lattice in ZnCu_3(OH)_6Cl_2 Herbertsmithite

Strongly correlated Fermi systems are among the most intriguing and fundamental systems in physics, whose realization in some compounds is still to be discovered. We show that herbertsmithite ZnCu_3(OH)_6Cl_2 can be viewed as a strongly correlated Fermi system whose low temperature thermodynamic in magnetic fields is defined by a quantum critical spin liquid. Our calculations of its thermodynamic properties are in good agreement with recent experimental facts and allow us to reveal their scaling behavior which strongly resembles that observed in HF metals and 2D 3He.

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arXiv2010

Scaling Behavior of Heavy Fermion Metals

Strongly correlated Fermi systems are fundamental systems in physics that are best studied experimentally, which until very recently have lacked theoretical explanations. This review discusses the construction of a theory and the analysis of phenomena occurring in strongly correlated Fermi systems such as heavy-fermion (HF) metals and two-dimensional (2D) Fermi systems. It is shown that the basic properties and the scaling behavior of HF metals can be described within the framework of a fermion condensation quantum phase transition (FCQPT) and extended quasiparticle paradigm that allow us to explain the non-Fermi liquid behavior observed in strongly correlated Fermi systems. In contrast to the Landau paradigm stating that the quasiparticle effective mass is a constant, the effective mass of new quasiparticles strongly depends on temperature, magnetic field, pressure, and other parameters. Having analyzed collected facts on strongly correlated Fermi systems with quite different microscopic nature, we find these to exhibit the same non-Fermi liquid behavior at FCQPT. We show both analytically and using arguments based entirely on the experimental grounds that the data collected on very different strongly correlated Fermi systems have a universal scaling behavior, and materials with strongly correlated fermions can unexpectedly be uniform in their diversity. Our analysis of strongly correlated systems such as HF metals and 2D Fermi systems is in the context of salient experimental results. Our calculations of the non-Fermi liquid behavior, the scales and thermodynamic, relaxation and transport properties are in good agreement with experimental facts.

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arXiv2009

Regge resonances in low-energy electron elastic cross sections for Ge, Sn and Pb atoms: manifestations of stable excited anions

Low-energy E < 2 eV electron elastic collisions with Ge, Sn and Pb atoms yield stable excited Ge-, Sn- and Pb- anions. The recent Regge-pole methodology is used with Thomas-Fermi type potential incorporating the crucial core-polarization interaction to calculate elastic total and Mulholland partial cross sections. For excited Ge- and Sn- anions the extracted binding energies from the unique characteristic sharp Regge resonances manifesting stable excited states formed during the collisions agree excellently with experimental values; for Pb- the prediction requires experimental verification. The calculated differential cross sections also yield the binding energies.

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arXiv2009

Energy scales and magnetoresistance at a quantum critical point

The magnetoresistance (MR) of CeCoIn_5 is notably different from that in many conventional metals. We show that a pronounced crossover from negative to positive MR at elevated temperatures and fixed magnetic fields is determined by the scaling behavior of quasiparticle effective mass. At a quantum critical point (QCP) this dependence generates kinks (crossover points from fast to slow growth) in thermodynamic characteristics (like specific heat, magnetization etc) at some temperatures when a strongly correlated electron system transits from the magnetic field induced Landau Fermi liquid (LFL) regime to the non-Fermi liquid (NFL) one taking place at rising temperatures. We show that the above kink-like peculiarity separates two distinct energy scales in QCP vicinity - low temperature LFL scale and high temperature one related to NFL regime. Our comprehensive theoretical analysis of experimental data permits to reveal for the first time new MR and kinks scaling behavior as well as to identify the physical reasons for above energy scales.

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arXiv2009

Magnetic-field-induced reentrance of Fermi-liquid behavior and spin-lattice relaxation rates in YbCu_{5-x}Au_x

A strong departure from Landau-Fermi liquid (LFL) behavior have been recently revealed in observed anomalies in both the magnetic susceptibility $χ$ and the muon and $\rm ^{63}Cu$ nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rates $1/T_1$ of ${\rm {YbCu_{5-x}Au_x}}$ ($x=0.6$). We show that the above anomalies along with magnetic-field-induced reentrance of LFL properties are indeed determined by the scaling behavior of the quasiparticle effective mass. We obtain the scaling behavior theoretically utilizing our approach based on fermion condensation quantum phase transition (FCQPT) notion. Our theoretical analysis of experimental data on the base of FCQPT approach permits not only to explain above two experimental facts in a unified manner, but to clarify the physical reasons for a scaling behavior of the longitudinal magnetoresistance in $\rm YbRh_2Si_2$.

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arXiv2009

Novel Electron Spectroscopy of Tenuously and Weakly Bound Negative Ions

A novel method is proposed that uses very slow electron elastic collisions with atoms to identify their presence through the observation of tenuously bound (electron impact energy, E<0.1 eV) and weakly bound (E<1 eV) negative ions, formed as Regge resonances during the collisions.

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arXiv2008

Universal Behavior of Two-Dimensional 3He at Low Temperatures

On the example of two-dimensional (2D) 3He we demonstrate that the main universal features of its experimental temperature T - density x phase diagram [see M. Neumann, J. Nyéki, J. Saunders, Science 317, 1356 (2007)] look like those in the heavy-fermion metals. Our comprehensive theoretical analysis of experimental situation in 2D 3He allows us to propose a simple expression for effective mass M^*(T,x), describing all diverse experimental facts in 2D 3He in unified manner and demonstrating that the universal behavior of M^*(T,x) coincides with that observed in HF metals.

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arXiv2007

Octupole Contributions to the Generalized Oscillator Strengths of Discrete Dipole Transitions in Noble Gases

The generalized oscillator strengths (GOS) of discrete excitations np-nd, both dipole (L=1) and octupole (L=3) are studied, the latter for the first time. We demonstrate that although the relevant transitions in the same atom are closely located in energy, the dependence of their GOS on the momentum transfer q squared, is remarkably different, so that the GOS corresponding to L=3 have at least one extra maximum as a function of q squared and dominate over those of the L=1, starting from about q=1.25$ atomic unit (a.u.). The calculations were performed in the one particle Hartree-Fock approximation and with account of many-electron correlations via the Random Phase Approximation with Exchange. The GOS are studied for values of q squared up to 30 a.u.

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arXiv2006

Quasiparticles and quantum phase transition in universal low-temperature properties of heavy-fermion metals

We demonstrate, that the main universal features of the low temperature experimental $H-T$ phase diagram of CeCoIn5 and other heavy-fermion metals can be well explained using Landau paradigm of quasiparticles. The main point of our theory is that above quasiparticles form so-called fermion-condensate state, achieved by a fermion condensation quantum phase transition (FCQPT). When a heavy fermion liquid undergoes FCQPT, the fluctuations accompanying above quantum critical point are strongly suppressed and cannot destroy the quasiparticles. The comparison of our theoretical results with experimental data on CeCoIn5 have shown that the electronic system of above substance provides a unique opportunity to study the relationship between quasiparticles properties and non-Fermi liquid behavior.

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