Quantum Critical Behavior in Kondo Systems

Details Quantum Critical Behavior in Kondo Systems Quantum Critical Behavior in Kondo Systems

1999-05-03

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9905006v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

6 pages, 4 eps figures, REVTeX (epsf style)

Scientific paper

10.1142/S0217979299002435

This article briefly reviews three topics related to the quantum critical behavior of certain heavy-fermion systems. First, we summarize an extended dynamical mean-field theory for the Kondo lattice, which treats on an equal footing the quantum fluctuations associated with the Kondo and RKKY couplings. The dynamical mean-field equations describe an effective Kondo impurity model with an additional coupling to vector bosons. Two types of quantum phase transition appear to be possible within this approach---the first a conventional spin-density-wave transition, the second driven by local physics. For the second type of transition to be realized, the effective impurity model must have a quantum critical point exhibiting an anomalous local spin susceptibility. In the second part of the paper, such a critical point is shown to occur in two variants of the Kondo impurity problem. Finally, we propose an operational test for the existence of quantum critical behavior driven by local physics. Neutron scattering results suggest that CeCu$_{6-x}$Au$_x$ passes this test.

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