The Fano effect in the point contact spectroscopy of heavy electron materials

Details The Fano effect in the point contact spectroscopy of heavy electron materials The Fano effect in the point contact spectroscopy of heavy electron materials

2008-06-16

arxiv.org/abs/0806.2484v2

Phys. Rev. B 79, 241107(R) (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

5 pages, 3 figures. A microscopic derivation for the Fano effect is included

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.79.241107

We show that Fano interference explains how point contact spectroscopy in heavy electron materials probes the emergence of the Kondo heavy electron liquid below the same characteristic temperature T* as that seen in many other experiments, and why the resulting measured conductance asymmetry reflects the universal Kondo liquid behavior seen in these. Its physical origin is the opening of a new channel for electron tunneling beyond that available from the background conduction electrons. We propose a simple phenomenological expression for the resulting Fano interference that provides a good fit to the experimental results for CeCoIn$_5$, CeRhIn$_5$ and YbAl$_3$, over the entire range of bias voltages, and deduce a life-time of the heavy quasiparticle excitations that agrees well with recent state-of-the-art numerical calculations.

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