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Quantum critical point in heavy fermions
Mucio Amado Continentino
The concept that heavy fermions are close to a quantum critical point and that this proximity determines their physical behavior, has opened new perspectives in the study of these…
Intergranular pinning potential and critical current in the magnetic superconductor RuSr2Gd1.5Ce0.5Cu2O10
M. G. das Virgens, S. Garcia, M. A. Continentino +1
The intergranular pinning potential U and the critical current density Jc for polycrystalline RuSr2Gd1.5Ce0.5Cu2O10 ruthenate-cuprate were determined at zero magnetic field and tem…
Comment on "Universally Diverging Gruneisen Parameter and the Magnetocaloric Effect Close to a Quantum Critical Point"
Mucio A. Continentino
In a recent Letter, Zhu et al. [L. Zhu et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 066404 (2003)], obtained the divergence of the Gruneisen ratio close to a quantum critical point (QCP). We show…
Solid state Pomeranchuk effect
M. A. Continentino, A. S. Ferreira, P. G. Pagliuso +2
Recently we have shown that and related compounds present a solid state Pomeranchuk effect. These systems have a first order volume transition where a local moment phase…
Pomeranchuk effect in unstable Ytterbium systems
Mucio A. Continentino, Andre S. Ferreira
and its alloys present discontinuous, first order iso-structural transitions at pressure dependent temperatures , where a local moment phase coexist with a ren…
Quantum first order phase transitions
Mucio A. Continentino, Andre S. Ferreira
The scaling theory of critical phenomena has been successfully extended for classical first order transitions even though the correlation length does not diverge in these transitio…