Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2006-06-09
Phys. Rev. B 73, 214205 (2006)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
18 pages, 18 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.73.214205
The quasicrystal Al-Pd-Mn is a model system for an experimental study of the competition between Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yoshida (RKKY) and Kondo interactions. First, specific of such alloys, only a few Mn atoms carry an effective spin and their concentration x is tunable over several orders of magnitude, even though the Mn amount is almost constant. Second, the characteristic energy scales for the interactions lie in the Kelvin range. Hence we could study the magnetization on both side of these energy scales, covering a range of temperatures [0.1-100 K] and magnetic fields (mu_B H/k_B= 0 to 5 K) for 22 samples and x varying over 2 decades. Using very general Kondo physics arguments, and thus carrying out the data analysis with no preconceived model, we found a very robust and simple result: The magnetization is a sum of a pure Kondo (T_K=3.35K) and a pure RKKY contributions, whatever the moment concentration is and this surprisingly up to the concentration where the RKKY couplings dominate fully and thus cannot be considered as a perturbation.
Hippert Francoise
Lhotel Elsa
Prejean J. J.
Sulpice André
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