Published March 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Underscreened Kondo lattice model at finite temperature

  • 1. Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Batiment 510, Universite Paris-Sud, 91405-Orsay (France)
  • 2. Instituto de Fisica, U.F.R.G.S., 91501-970 Porto Alegre (Brazil)
  • 3. MPIPKS, Noethnitzer Str. 38, 01187 Dresden (Germany)

Description

We have developed an underscreened Kondo lattice model with an intra-site Kondo exchange interaction JK between the conduction band and localized 5f electrons-described by S=1 spins in the f2 configuration-and an inter-site ferromagnetic exchange f-f interaction JH. Using a fermionic representation for the spin operators and a mean-field approximation we obtain, from T=0 up to a critical temperature, a Kondo-ferromagnetic coexistence. This is in agreement with the experimental situation of some Uranium compounds, such as UTe or UCu0.9Sb2, which order ferromagnetically with a Curie temperature of order 100K and present also a Kondo behavior. The Curie and Kondo temperatures are also determined

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.jmmm.2006.10.268;
PII
S0304-8853(06)01457-0;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
Journal Volume
310
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 428-430
ISSN
0304-8853
CODEN
JMMMDC

Conference

Title
17. international conference on magnetism
Dates
20-25 Aug 2006
Place
Kyoto (Japan)

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Copyright (c) 2006 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.