J. Flouquet et al., THE HEAVY-FERMION COMPOUND CERU2SI2 - MAGNETIC INSTABILITY, LATTICE QUASICOLLAPSE AND METAMAGNETISM, Physica. B, Condensed matter, 215(1), 1995, pp. 77-87
The physical properties of the heavy fermion compound CeRu2Si2 are rev
iewed. Since this compound is close to a magnetic instability, special
attention is paid to its magnetization in which a metamagnetic-like t
ransition occurs at a field H-M of 7.7 T and to the strong coupling be
tween this effect and the volume, leading to a quasi-collapse of the l
attice. It is shown that the value of the differential susceptibility
at H-M reaches an intrinsic finite limit at very low temperature. Diff
erent theoretical models are discussed.