Interplay between strong correlations and magnetic field in the symmetric periodic Anderson model

Details Interplay between strong correlations and magnetic field in the symmetric periodic Anderson model Interplay between strong correlations and magnetic field in the symmetric periodic Anderson model

2008-06-10

arxiv.org/abs/0806.1581v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

8 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.78.035128

Magnetic field effects in Kondo insulators are studied theoretically, using a local moment approach to the periodic Anderson model within the framework of dynamical mean-field theory. Our main focus is on field-induced changes in single-particle dynamics and the associated hybridization gap in the density of states. Particular emphasis is given to the strongly correlated regime, where dynamics are found to exhibit universal scaling in terms of a field-dependent low energy coherence scale. Although the bare applied field is globally uniform, the effective fields experienced by the conduction electrons and the $f$-electrons differ because of correlation effects. A continuous insulator-metal transition is found to occur on increasing the applied field, closure of the hybridization gap reflecting competition between Zeeman splitting and screening of the $f$-electron local moments. For intermediate interaction strengths the hybridization gap depends non-linearly on the applied field, while in strong coupling its field dependence is found to be linear. For the classic Kondo insulator YbB$_{12}$, good agreement is found upon direct comparison of the field evolution of the experimental transport gap with the theoretical hybridization gap in the density of states.

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