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Quantum Critical Point in the Spin Glass-Kondo Transition in Heavy Fermion Systems

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2009-11-10 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

The Kondo-Spin Glass competition is studied in a theoretical model of a Kondo lattice with an intra-site Kondo type exchange interaction treated within the mean field approximation, an inter-site quantum Ising exchange interaction with random couplings among localized spins and an additional transverse field in the x direction, which represents a simple quantum mechanism of spin flipping. We obtain two second order transition lines from the spin-glass state to the paramagnetic one and then to the Kondo state. For a reasonable set of the different parameters, the two second order transition lines do not intersect and end in two distinct QCP.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0404551,
  title  = {Quantum Critical Point in the Spin Glass-Kondo Transition in Heavy Fermion Systems},
  author = {Alba Theumann and B. Coqblin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0404551},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

20 pages; 1 figure; to appear in Physical Review B