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Ferromagnetism in the Kondo-lattice model

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2009-11-07 v3

Abstract

We propose a modified RKKY-technique to evaluate the magnetic properties of the ferromagnetic Kondo-lattice model. Together with a previously developed selfenergy approach to the conduction electron part of the model we get a closed system of equations which can be solved self-consistently. Ferromagnetism appears for relatively low electron (hole) densities, while it is excluded around half-filling (n=1n=1). For small JJ conventional RKKY (J2\sim J^2) is reproduced; however, with strong deviations already for very moderate exchange couplings. For not too small nn a critical JcJ_c is needed to produce ferromagnetism with a finite Curie temperature TCT_{\textrm{C}}, which increases with JJ, then running into a kind of saturation, in order to fall off again and disappearing above an upper critical exchange JJ.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0202114,
  title  = {Ferromagnetism in the Kondo-lattice model},
  author = {C. Santos and W. Nolting},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0202114},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

11 pages, 14 figures, Phys. Rev. B 65, 1444XX (2002)