Crystal fields and Kondo effect: Specific heat for Cerium compounds

Crystal Growth and Stoichiometry of Strongly Correlated Intermetallic Cerium Compounds

HOW THE KONDO EFFECT CAN EXIST IN Gd INTERMETALLIC COMPOUNDS

Based on the crystal and magnetic structural properties of some Gd intermetallic compounds, it is shown that with increasing conduction electron concentration, Gd experiences electronic and magnetic instability, and that these behaviors point to the appearance of Kondo Lattice. We suggest that the conduction electrons have gained local character. It is shown that Kondo effect should be observed...

Specific heat of Ce0.8La0.2Al3 in magnetic fields: a test of the anisotropic Kondo picture.

The specific heat C of Ce0.8La0.2Al3 has been measured as a function of temperature T in magnetic fields up to 14 T. A large peak in C at 2.3 K has recently been ascribed to an anisotropic Kondo effect in this compound. A 14-T field depresses the temperature of the peak by only 0.2 K, but strongly reduces its height. The corresponding peak in C/T shifts from 2.1 K at zero field to 1.7 K at 14 T...

First-principles simulations of heavy fermion cerium compounds based on the Kondo lattice.

We propose a new framework for first-principles calculations of heavy-fermion materials. These are described in terms of the Kondo lattice Hamiltonian with the parameters extracted from a realistic density functional based calculation which is then solved using continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo method and dynamical mean field theory. As an example, we show our results for the Néel temperature...

how the kondo effect can exist in gd intermetallic compounds

based on the crystal and magnetic structural properties of some gd intermetallic compounds, it is shown that with increasing conduction electron concentration, gd experiences electronic and magnetic instability, and that these behaviors point to the appearance of kondo lattice. we suggest that the conduction electrons have gained local character. it is shown that kondo effect should be observed...