Curie law, entropy excess, and superconductivity in heavy fermion metals and other strongly interacting Fermi liquids

Abstract

Low-temperature thermodynamic properties of strongly interacting Fermi liquids with fermion condensate are investigated. We demonstrate that the spin susceptibility of these systems exhibits the Curie-Weiss law, and the entropy contains a temperature-independent term. The excessive entropy is released at the superconducting transition, enhancing the specific heat jump Delta C and rendering it proportional to the effective Curie constant. The theoretical results are favorably compared with the experimental data on the heavy fermion metal CeCoIn5, as well as He-3 films.

4 pages, 2 figures. V.2: a reference added; minor changes as in the published version

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• Quantum criticality
• Unpaired Electrons in the Heavy-Fermion Superconductor CeCoIn_{5}

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