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Weak magnetoresistance of disordered heavy fermion systems

A. Chattopadhyay, M. Jarrell, H. R. Krishnamurthy, H. K. Ng, J. Sarrao, Z. Fisk

cond-mat.str-elarXiv:cond-mat/9805127

Abstract

We compare the magnetoresistance of UCu3.5Pd1.5 with calculations done within the disordered heavy fermion framework of Miranda et al. using a phenomenological spectral function for the Anderson model, calibrated against Bethe ansatz and quantum Monte Carlo results. Both in experiment and theory, we find a weak negative magnetoresistance. In contrast, thermodynamic quantities have a strong field dependence. Using qualitative arguments broad distribution of Kondo scales, we explain the different field dependence of susceptibility and resistivity.

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