Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-7-2013
Abstract
We analyze a microscopic origin of the Kondo effect-assisted orbital order in heavy-fermion materials. By studying the periodic two-orbital Anderson model with two local electrons, we show that frustration of Hund's rule coupling due to the Kondo effect leads to an incommensurate spiral orbital and magnetic order, which exists only inside the Kondo screened (heavy-electron) phase. This spiral state can be observed in neutron and resonant x-ray scattering measurements in U- and Pr-based heavy-fermion compounds, and realized in cold atomic gases, e.g., fermionic Yb173. © 2013 American Physical Society.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Physical Review Letters
Recommended Citation
Isaev, L., Aoyama, K., Paul, I., & Vekhter, I. (2013). Orbital order and Hund's rule frustration in Kondo lattices. Physical Review Letters, 111 (15) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.157202