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Kondo Insulator description of spin state transition in FeSb2

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2009-11-11 v1 Materials Science

Abstract

The thermal expansion and heat capacity of FeSb2 at ambient pressure agrees with a picture of a temperature induced spin state transition within the Fe t_{2g} multiplet. However, high pressure powder diffraction data show no sign of a structural phase transition up to 7GPa. A bulk modulus B=84(3)GPa has been extracted and the temperature dependence of the Gruneisen parameter has been determined. We discuss here the relevance of a Kondo insulator description for this material.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0504458,
  title  = {Kondo Insulator description of spin state transition in FeSb2},
  author = {C. Petrovic and Y. Lee and T. Vogt and N. Dj. Lazarov and S. L. Bud'ko and P. C. Canfield},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0504458},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Physical Review B in press (2005)