I review the basic physical picture that has traditionally been associated
with the quantum phase transitions in clean heavy fermion metals, as well a
s some new questions that have been raised by recent neutron scattering exp
eriments. I will then describe the results from an extended dynamical mean-
field theory of the Kondo lattice models. Unlike all previous studies of th
e model, our approach treats on an equal footing the quantum fluctuations a
ssociated with both the Kondo and RKKY couplings. Two types of quantum phas
e transitions are found - the first a conventional spin-density-wave transi
tion, the second driven by local physics. The second type of quantum critic
al point appears to have already been seen experimentally. (C) 2001 Elsevie
r Science B.V. All rights reserved.