In this paper, the electron-type heavy-fermion system and the hole-type heavy-fermion system are classified by means of the cell-volume difference between two typical valence states of f ions. Two kinds of transitions induced by pressure are studied theoretically within a unified picture presented for both two types of heavy-fermion systems. Among these transitions, the incoherence-to-coherence transition in the electron-type heavy-fermion system is confirmed intensively in experiments, while the coherence-to-incoherence transition in the hole-type heavy-fermion system is discussed as a prediction for further observations.
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