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    A quantum multi-critical point in CeCu6−xAux
    (Elsevier B. V., 2006-11-15) Robinson, RA; Goossens, DJ; Torikachvili, MS; Kakurai, K; Okumura, H
    CeCu6−xAux is a well-known heavy-fermion system in which the ground state is antiferromagnetically ordered for x>0.1 and temperatures below 1 K. Non-Fermi liquid behaviour occurs around this critical concentration. The parent compound, CeCu6, exhibits a structural phase transition near 230 K, where it changes from the Pnma orthorhombic room-temperature structure to the P21/c monoclinic structure. The monoclinicity increases as temperature falls, with β reaching 91.44° at 10 K. In the work presented here, powder neutron diffraction is used to explore the monoclinicity at 8 K as a function of composition for 0.00.1, indicates that long-range order disappears at exactly the same critical concentration. At a minimum, the structural distortion and antiferromagnetism seem to be competing with each other, and this raises the intriguing possibility that lattice degrees of freedom are important in the non-Fermi liquid regime.