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Specific Heat of the Periodic Anderson Model: From Weak to Strong Coupling

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

We study the temperature dependence of the specific heat in the periodic Anderson model as function of the on-site Coulomb interaction, hybridization, and position of the f-electrons energy level. At strong coupling (U=infinity) we use slave bosons, whereas at weak coupling we use a simple Hartree-Fock decomposition. We find that both in the strong and weak coupling limits the specific heat of the system presents a multiple peak structure in a mean field treatment. We believe these features to be related to band-shape effects. The temperature evolution of the low-temperature peak position on the model parameters for the non-half filled non-symmetric case is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0109362,
  title  = {Specific Heat of the Periodic Anderson Model: From Weak to Strong Coupling},
  author = {N. M. R. Peres and P. D. Sacramento and M. A. N. Araujo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0109362},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages