Heavy-fermion formation in transition metals and transition-metal oxides is reviewed and compared to observations in canonical f-derived heavy-fermion systems. The work focuses on the dynamic susceptibilities which reveal a characteristic temperature and frequency dependence and which can be...

Thermal hysteresis associated with ferroelectric to paraelectric phase transition is investigated in a ferroelectric copolymer of vinylidene fluoride and trifluoroethylene, using X-ray diffraction and incoherent neutron scattering. The lattice spacing derived from the diffractograms, shows...