title: Kinks in the electronic specific heat.
abstract: We find that the heat capacity of a strongly correlated metal presents striking changes with respect to Landau Fermi-liquid theory. In contrast with normal metals, where the electronic specific heat is linear at low temperature (with a T3 term as a leading correction), a dynamical mean-field study of the correlated Hubbard model reveals a clear kink in the temperature dependence, marking a rapid change from a low-temperature linear behavior and a second linear regime with a reduced slope. Experiments on LiV2O4 support our findings, implying that correlated materials are more resistive to cooling at low T than expected from the intermediate temperature behavior.
authors.affiliation: Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Heisenbergstrasse 1, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Toschi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Capone
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Castellani
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Held