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1996 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Devil's Staircase in Semimetals

Research Project

Project/Area Number 07804020
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 固体物性Ⅱ(磁性・金属・低温)
Research InstitutionUniversity of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

UEDA Kazuo  Univ. of Tokyo, Inst. for Solid State Physics, Professor, 物性研究所, 教授 (70114395)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) KONTANI Hiroshi  Univ. of Tokyo, Inst. for Solid State Phys., Research Associate, 物性研究所, 助手 (90272533)
Project Period (FY) 1995 – 1996
KeywordsKondo lattice mode / semimetal / devil's staircas / frustration / CeSb / RKKY interaction / Friedel oscillations / large Fermi surface
Research Abstract

Among the magnetic materials known so far, CeSb has the most complex phase diagram as a function of temperature and magnetic field. The complex magnetic phase diagram is know as the devil's staircase. Generally, the series of CeX (X=P,As, Bi, Sb) have complex magnetic phase diagrams in different degree, which suggeststhat there is a common mechanism for the devil's staircase observed in CeX.A characteristic feature of CeX is smallness of carriers. The carriers of CeX consist of holes at the GAMMA point and electrons at the X points. Under this situation, a new type of scattering processes from holes to electrons and vice versa accompanied by spin exchange with f-spins. This process may be calledoff-diagonal exchange in contrast to the usual exchanges where the scattering are within a band. The momentum transfer associated with his off-diagonal exchange corresponds to the antiferromagnetic wave vector, favoring antiferromagnetic RKKY interaction among the f spins. On the other hand, the ordinary exchanges favor ferromagnetic coupling in the low carrier limit. In this project, we have shown that the frustration between the RKKY interactions originated from these two types of exchange mechanisms is the basic mechanism for the devil's staircase in CeX by using a simple one-dimensional model.
Since the origin of the RKKY interaction can be traced back to the Friedel oscillations, we have proceeded to study the spin and charge Friedel oscillations in the Kondo lattice model. By using the
density matrix renormalization group method, we have observed spin and charge Friedel oscillations. From the period it is concluded that the Fermi volume is large in the sense that the Fermi wavevector isdetermined by the sum of densities of conduction electrons and localized spins.

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All Publications (16 results)

  • [Publications] N.Shibata: "Devil′s Staircase in Kondo Semimetals at Low Temperatures" Phys.Rev.B. 52. 10232-10238 (1995)

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  • [Publications] N.Shibata: "Neel Ordres,Haldane Gap and Kondo Spin Liquid Phase in the Anisotropic Kondo Chain" Physica B. 223&224. 363-365 (1996)

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  • [Publications] K.Ueda: "Devil′s Staircase in Kondo Semimetals" Physica B. 223&224. 426-428 (1996)

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  • [Publications] N.Shibata: "Spin and Charge Gaps in 1-D Kondo Lattice Model with Coulomb Interaction between Conduction Electrons" Phys.Rev.B. 53. R8828-R8831 (1996)

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  • [Publications] N.Shibata: "Friedel Oscillations in the One-Dimensinal Kondo Lattice Model" Phys.Rev.B. 54. 13495-13498 (1996)

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  • [Publications] K.Ueda: "Recent Progress in Theoretical Understanding on Heavy Fermion Systems" (発表予定).

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  • [Publications] N.Shibata: "Large Fermi Surface of the One-Dimensional Kondo Lattice Model Observed by Friedel Oscillations" Physica B. (in press).

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  • [Publications] K.Ueda: "Kondo Lattice Model -A Perspective of Heavy Electron Phenomena-" Physica B. (in press).

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  • [Publications] N.Shibata: "One-Dimensional Kondo Lattice Model as a Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquid" submitted to Phys.Rev.B.

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  • [Publications] N.Shibata: "Devil's Staircase in Kondo Semimetals at Low Temperatures" Phys. Rev.B52. 10232-10238 (1995)

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  • [Publications] N.Shibata: "Neel Orders, Haldane Gap and Kondo Spin Liquid Phase in the Anisotropic Kondo Chain." Physica B. 223 & 224. 363-365 (1996)

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  • [Publications] K.Ueda: "Devil's Staircase in Kondo Semimetals." Physica B. 223 & 224. 426-428 (1996)

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  • [Publications] N.Shibata: "Spin and Charge Gaps in 1-D Kondo Lattice Model with Coulomb Interaction between Conduction Electrons." Phys. Rev.B53. R8828-R8831 (1996)

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  • [Publications] N.Shibata: "Friedel Oscillations in the One-Dimensional Kondo Lattice Model." Phys. Rev.B54. 13495-13498 (1996)

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  • [Publications] N.Shibata: "Large Fermi Surface of the One-Dimensional Kondo Lattice Model Observed by Friedel Oscillations." Physica B. (in press). (1997)

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  • [Publications] K.Ueda: "Kondo Lattice Model-A Perspective of Heavy Electron Phenomena" Physica B. (in press). (1997)

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