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Effect of anisotropy in the $S=1$ underscreened Kondo lattice

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2015-06-19 v1

Abstract

We study the effect of crystal field anisotropy in the underscreened S=1S=1 Kondo lattice model. Starting from the two orbital Anderson lattice model and including a local anisotropy term, we show, through Schrieffer-Wolff transformation, that local anisotropy is equivalent to an anisotropic Kondo interaction (JJJ_{\parallel} \neq{J_{\perp}}). The competition and coexistence between ferromagnetism and Kondo effect in this effective model is studied within a generalized mean-field approximation. Several regimes are obtained, depending on the parameters, exhibiting or not coexistence of magnetic order and Kondo effect. Particularly, we show that a re-entrant Kondo phase at low temperature can be obtained. We are also able to describe phases where the Kondo temperature is smaller than the Curie temperature (TK<TCT_K<T_C). We propose that some aspects of uranium and neptunium compounds that present coexistence of Kondo effect and ferromagnetism, can be understood within this model.

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@article{arxiv.1404.6864,
  title  = {Effect of anisotropy in the $S=1$ underscreened Kondo lattice},
  author = {Christopher Thomas and Acirete S. da Rosa Simões and Claudine Lacroix and José Roberto Iglesias and Bernard Coqblin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.6864},
  year   = {2015}
}

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7 pages, 3 figures