Heavy-fermion metals with hybridization nodes: Unconventional Fermi liquids and competing phases

Details Heavy-fermion metals with hybridization nodes: Unconventional Fermi liquids and competing phases Heavy-fermion metals with hybridization nodes: Unconventional Fermi liquids and competing phases

2007-10-19

arxiv.org/abs/0710.3644v2

Phys. Rev. B 77, 125118 (2008)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

16 pages, 8 figs, (v2) remark on Wiedemann-Franz added, small changes, final version as published

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.77.125118

Microscopic models for heavy-fermion materials often assume a local, i.e., momentum-independent, hybridization between the conduction band and the local-moment f electrons. Motivated by recent experiments, we consider situations where this neglect of momentum dependence is inappropriate, namely when the hybridization function has nodes in momentum space. We explore the thermodynamic and optical properties of the highly anisotropic heavy Fermi liquid, resulting from Kondo screening in a higher angular-momentum channel. The dichotomy in momentum space has interesting consequences: While e.g. the low-temperature specific heat is dominated by heavy quasiparticles, the electrical conductivity at intermediate temperatures is carried by unhybridized light electrons. We then discuss aspects of the competition between Kondo effect and ordering phenomena induced by inter-moment exchange: We propose that the strong momentum-space anisotropy plays a vital role in selecting competing phases. Explicit results are obtained for the interplay of unconventional hybridization with unconventional, magnetically mediated, superconductivity, utilizing variants of large-N mean-field theory. We make connections to recent experiments on CeCoIn5 and other heavy-fermion materials.

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