Hot electron relaxation in the heavy-fermion Yb1- xLuxAl3 compound using femtosecond optical pump-probe spectroscopy
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1. Demsar,I,2,3 V. V. Kabanov,I,3 A: S. Alexandrov,4 H. 1. Lee,5 E. D. Bauer,5 1. L. Sarrao,5 and A. 1. Taylor5 Iphysics Department and Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany 2Center for Applied Photonics, University of Konstanz, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany 3Complex Matter Department, lozef Stefan Institute, SI-lOOO Ljubljana, Slovenia 4Department of Physics, Loughborough University, Loughborough LEll 3TU, United Kingdom 5Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA (Received 4 August 2009; published 27 August 2009)
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