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Kondo Breakdown as a Selective Mott Transition in the Anderson Lattice

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

We show within the slave boson technique, that the Anderson lattice model exhibits a Kondo breakdown quantum critical point (KB-QCP) where the hybridization goes to zero at zero temper- ature. At this fixed point, the f-electrons experience as well a selective Mott transition separating a local-moment phase from a Kondo-screened phase. The presence of a multi-scale QCP in the An- derson lattice in the absence of magnetism is discussed in the context of heavy fermion compounds. This study is the first evidence for a selective Mott transition in the Anderson lattice.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0610846,
  title  = {Kondo Breakdown as a Selective Mott Transition in the Anderson Lattice},
  author = {C. Pepin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0610846},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 2 figures, version with new figures and typos corrected