Report on my research at the SSPC Laboratory, Division of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University

Abstract

This report reviews my research conducted as Visiting Fellow at the Solid State Physics and Chemistry (SSPC) Laboratory in the Division of Chemistry financed by the International Research Unit of Advanced Future Studies at Kyoto University. The subject of my research are electronic ground state instabilities and quantum critical phenomena in strongly correlated electron systems, especially those among inter-metallic rare earth compounds. Thereby, two classes of materials are in the focus of my present work. Studies of materials near an itinerant magnetic instability: nearly and weakly ferromagnetic compounds and the characterization of their spinfluctuation features and magneto-volume effects. The second focus is on cerium and ytterbium based metals with electronic ground state instabilities being related to the mechanisms of Kondo- and/or magnetic frustration effects. Future collaboration plans of the SSPC Laboratory with me and my collaborators at TU Wien are finally outlined, also targeting interdisciplinary research with additional partners.