Underscreened Kondo Necklace

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1993-01-11

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9301010v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

15 pages (2 figures upon request from fazekas@itsictp.bitnet), LATEX, to appear in Modern Physics Letters B

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It has been suggested recently by Gan, Coleman, and Andrei that studying the underscreened Kondo problem may help to understand the nature of magnetism in heavy fermion systems. Motivated by Doniach's work on the S=1/2 Kondo necklace, we introduce the underscreened Kondo necklace models with S>1/2. The underscreened Kondo necklace is the simplest lattice model on which the competition between Kondo spin compensation, and magnetic ordering due to an RKKY-type interaction can be examined. We used the mean-field approximation to determine the phase diagram, and found that the low-temperature phase is always an x-y antiferromagnet. This contention is further supported by the derivation of the exact form of the effective hamiltonian in the limit of very large Kondo coupling: it is found to be an antiferromagnetic x-y model for the residual (S-1/2)-spins. In general, the degree of moment compensation depends on both the Kondo coupling, and on S.

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