Ferromagnetic Mixed-Valence and Kondo-Lattice State in TmTe at High Pressure

Details Ferromagnetic Mixed-Valence and Kondo-Lattice State in TmTe at High Pressure Ferromagnetic Mixed-Valence and Kondo-Lattice State in TmTe at High Pressure

1997-11-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9711121v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

4 pages, 2 figures, PDF format; accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.173

Neutron diffraction experiments on TmTe at pressures up to 7 GPa are reported. The semiconductor-to-metal transition occurring at 2 GPa in this compound is accompanied by the appearance of strong ferromagnetic exchange interactions producing a Curie temperature as high as 14 K. This behavior is characteristic for the incipient mixed-valence regime just above the transition pressure and traced back to the release of a small concentration of free charge carriers in the material. The steep decrease of both the Curie temperature and ordered magnetic moment occurring at higher pressures emphasizes the role of Kondo fluctuations, and raises the interesting possibility that a quantum critical transition to a non-magnetic ground state of mixed-valence Tm might take place around 6 GPa.

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