Valence Instability and Superconductivity in Heavy Fermion Systems

Details Valence Instability and Superconductivity in Heavy Fermion Systems Valence Instability and Superconductivity in Heavy Fermion Systems

2006-11-16

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0611429v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

11 pages, 16 figures

Scientific paper

10.1143/JPSJ.76.051002

Many cerium-based heavy fermion (HF) compounds have pressure-temperature phase diagrams in which a superconducting region extends far from a magnetic quantum critical point. In at least two compounds, CeCu2Si2 and CeCu2Ge2, an enhancement of the superconducting transition temperature was found to coincide with an abrupt valence change, with strong circumstantial evidence for pairing mediated by critical valence, or charge transfer, fluctuations. This pairing mechanism, and the valence instability, is a consequence of a f-c Coulomb repulsion term U_fc in the hamiltonian. While some non-superconducting Ce compounds show a clear first order valence instability, analogous to the Ce alpha-gamma transition, we argue that a weakly first order valence transition may be a general feature of Ce-based HF systems, and both magnetic and critical valence fluctuations may be responsible for the superconductivity in these systems.

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