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Field-induced quantum critical point in CeCoIn5

Johnpierre Paglione, M. A. Tanatar, D. G. Hawthorn, Etienne Boaknin, R. W. Hill, F. Ronning, M. Sutherland, Louis Taillefer, C. Petrovic, P. C. Canfield

cond-mat.supr-conarXiv:cond-mat/0304497

Abstract

The resistivity of CeCoIn5 was measured down to 20 mK in magnetic fields of up to 16 T. With increasing field, we observe a suppression of the non-Fermi liquid behavior, rho~T, and the development of a Fermi liquid state, with its characteristic rho=rho0+AT2 dependence. The field dependence of the T2 coefficient shows critical behavior with an exponent of ~4/3. This is evidence for a new field-induced quantum critical point, occuring in this case at a critical field which coincides with the superconducting upper critical field Hc2.

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