Quantum critical behavior in a concentrated ternary solid solution

Sales, Brian C.; Bei, Hongbin; Stocks, George Malcolm; Samolyuk, German D.; McGuire, Michael A.; Jin, Ke; May, Andrew F.

doi:10.1038/srep26179

Title: Quantum critical behavior in a concentrated ternary solid solution

Journal Article · Wed May 18 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Scientific Reports

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/srep26179· OSTI ID:1256814

Sales, Brian C. ^[1]; Bei, Hongbin ^[1]; Stocks, George Malcolm ^[1]; Samolyuk, German D. ^[1]; McGuire, Michael A. ^[1]; Jin, Ke ^[1]; May, Andrew F. ^[1]

Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

The face centered cubic (fcc) alloy NiCoCr_x with x ≈ 1 is found to be close to the Cr concentration where the ferromagnetic transition temperature, Tc, goes to 0. Near this composition these alloys exhibit a resistivity linear in temperature to 2 K, a linear magnetoresistance, an excess –TlnT (or power law) contribution to the low temperature heat capacity, and excess low temperature entropy. All of the low temperature electrical, magnetic and thermodynamic properties of the alloys with compositions near x ≈ 1 are not typical of a Fermi liquid and suggest strong magnetic fluctuations associated with a quantum critical region. Lastly, the limit of extreme chemical disorder in this simple fcc material thus provides a novel and unique platform to study quantum critical behavior in a highly tunable system.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

DOE Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1256814

Journal Information:: Scientific Reports, Vol. 6; ISSN 2045-2322

Publisher:: Nature Publishing Group

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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