Competition between Kondo and RKKY exchange couplings in Pu{1-x}Am{x} alloys

Details Competition between Kondo and RKKY exchange couplings in Pu{1-x}Am{x} alloys Competition between Kondo and RKKY exchange couplings in Pu{1-x}Am{x} alloys

2008-06-02

arxiv.org/abs/0806.0408v1

Phys. Rev. B 78, 060401 (2008)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

5 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

To clarify the role of the Kondo effect in screening local magnetic moments of Plutonium 5f--electrons as well as its competition to the RKKY interactions we use a combination of density functional theory with static Hartree Fock and dynamic Hubbard 1 approximations to calculate the strength of both the Kondo exchange, J_K, and of the RKKY exchange, J_RKKY, couplings for Pu{1-x}Am{x} system as a function of x. We find that J_K increases despite the atomic volume gets larger with the Am doping due to unexpected enhancement of hybridization between f and conduction electrons in the vicinity of the Fermi level. At the same time, the RKKY exchange is shown to reduce smoothly with increasing x. Our results imply that the Kondo effect should be robust against the increase in interatomic spacing of this alloy.

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