Mucio Amado Continentino

           Mucio Continentino obtained his BSc in Physics at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro in 1969, the MSc. in 1973 and the PhD  at Imperial College of Science and Technology, London in 1978. He was a Visiting Scientist at IBM T.J.Watson Research Center for the year of 1985-1986 and at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee during 1995-1996. He has been a Visiting Scientist at Darmstadt in Germany on several occasions and at different laboratories in Grenoble, France. Since 1978, he is at the Institute of Physics of the Universidade Federal Fluminense in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, now as a Full Professor. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and a Fellow IA from the Brazilian Research Council (CNPq).   

Strongly Correlated Electron Systems: Heavy Fermions, Kondo Insulators, Mott Insulators and High-Tc Superconductors.

See the book Quantum Scaling in many-body Systems published by World Scientific in 2001.

15 years of the scaling theory of heavy fermions:

Quantum critical point in heavy fermions, Braz. J. of Phys., vol.35, no.1, 197 (2005).

    The concept that heavy fermions are close to a quantum critical point and that this proximity determines their physical behavior, has opened new perspectives in the study of these systems. It provides a new paradigm for understanding and probing the properties of these strongly correlated materials. Scaling ideas were important to establish this approach. We give below a brief and personal account of the genesis of some of these ideas 15 years ago, their implications and future prospects.

Article in Journal de Physique (1991): Scaling in heavy fermions: the case of CeRu₂Si₂.

Magnetic Systems:  Low dimensional magnetism, Effects of disorder and Oxy-borates

See Chapter on book of correlated materials.