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Heavy fermion materials are correlated metals whose low-energy quasiparticles have exceptionally large effective masses. Partly localized $f$-electron moments hybridize with broader conduction states. The Kondo effect and coherence below the Kondo-lattice coherence temperature produce a narrow low-energy band, so a small energy change corresponds to a large momentum-space state density.

For the electronic heat capacity of a heavy Fermi liquid, the resulting density of states gives a large low-temperature electronic specific-heat coefficient,and often an enhanced magnetic susceptibility. Here $g$ includes both spins and must be expressed per sample, mole or volume consistently with $\gamma$. A coherent Fermi-liquid regime often has $\rho ={\rho }_0+A{T}^2$ with an enhanced coefficient $A$. Above coherence, scattering by local moments can instead give a Kondo-like resistivity upturn.

The competition between moment screening and intersite magnetic interactions can yield a heavy paramagnetic metal, magnetic order, quantum-critical behaviour or unconventional superconductivity. Ce- and U-based compounds supply familiar examples. “Heavy” describes the emergent electronic quasiparticles, not the ionic mass; the simple heavy-band picture need not survive at a quantum critical point.^[ref]

Piers Coleman studies strongly interacting electrons, particularly heavy fermions and the Kondo lattice. In these materials, coupling between mobile electrons and local magnetic moments can produce coherent low-energy quasiparticles with a very large effective mass. His theoretical exposition connects the screening of one magnetic moment in the Kondo effect with collective behavior in a lattice of such moments. The competition with magnetic interactions helps organize questions about magnetism, superconductivity and the breakdown of the heavy-electron state.^[ref]