Orbital Order and Hund%26apos;s Rule Frustration in Kondo Lattices

作者:Isaev L*; Aoyama K; Paul I; Vekhter I
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2013, 111(15): UNSP 157202.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.157202

摘要

We analyze a microscopic origin of the Kondo effect-assisted orbital order in heavy-fermion materials. By studying the periodic two-orbital Anderson model with two local electrons, we show that frustration of Hund%26apos;s rule coupling due to the Kondo effect leads to an incommensurate spiral orbital and magnetic order, which exists only inside the Kondo screened (heavy-electron) phase. This spiral state can be observed in neutron and resonant x-ray scattering measurements in U- and Pr-based heavy-fermion compounds, and realized in cold atomic gases, e.g., fermionic Yb-173.

  • 出版日期2013-10-7