Authors

Liusuo Wu

Type

Text

Type

Dissertation

Advisor

Aronson, Meigan C | Jacak, Barbara | Allen, Philip | Zaliznyak, Igor | Lee, Seung-Hun.

Date

2013-12-01

Keywords

Frustration, Heavy fermion, Low dimensional quantum magnet, Magnetism, Quantum critical scaling, Quantum phase transition | Physics

Department

Department of Physics.

Language

en_US

Source

This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.

Identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/11401/76740

Publisher

The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.

Format

application/pdf

Abstract

Quantum phase transitions have attracted a great deal of interest in the study of condensed matter physics. Normally, this refers to continuous transitions that occur at zero temperature (T = 0), where the correlation length and time scales diverge, and universal scaling is observed close to the Quantum Critical Point (QCP). In this thesis, the search for quantum criticality in the three magnetic compounds: Yb3Pt4, YFe2Al10 and Yb2Pt2Pb will be discussed from different perspectives. | 255 pages

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