Renormalized spin wave excitations in the antiferromagnetic Heisenberg-Kondo model for heavy fermions

Details Renormalized spin wave excitations in the antiferromagnetic Heisenberg-Kondo model for heavy fermions Renormalized spin wave excitations in the antiferromagnetic Heisenberg-Kondo model for heavy fermions

2007-07-31

arxiv.org/abs/0708.0023v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

13 pages: incl. 6 figures, 1 table

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Recent inelastic neutron scattering experiments in CeIn3 and CePd2Si2 single crystals, measured spin wave excitations at low temperatures. These two heavy fermion compounds exhibit antiferromagnetic long-range order, but a strong competition between the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida(RKKY) interaction and Kondo effect is evidenced by their nearly equal Neel and Kondo temperatures. Our aim is to show how magnons such as measured in the antiferromagnetic phase of these Ce compounds, can be described with a microscopic Heisenberg-Kondo model as introduced by J.R.Iglesias, C.Lacroix and B.Coqblin, used before for studies of the non-magnetic phase. The model includes the correlated Ce-4f electrons hybridized with the conduction band, and we consider competing RKKY (Heisenberg-like J_{H}) and Kondo (J_{K}) antiferromagnetic couplings. Carrying on a series of unitary transformations, we perturbatively derive a second-order effective Hamiltonian which, projected onto the antiferromagnetic electron ground state, describes the spin wave excitations, renormalized by their interaction with correlated itinerant electrons. We numerically study how the different parameters of the model influence the renormalization of the magnons, yielding useful information for the analysis of inelastic neutron scattering experiments in antiferromagnetic heavy fermion compounds. We also compare our results with available experimental data, finding good agreement with the spin wave measurements in cubic CeIn3.

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