Effects of doping in Kondo insulators (invited)
Effects of doping in Kondo insulators (invited)
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近藤绝缘体中掺杂的影响(特邀)
DOI:
10.1063/1.356720
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发表时间:
1994
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
P. Schlottmann
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作者:
P. Schlottmann
Kondo insulators like Ce3Bi4Pt3 and CeNiSn are compounds with small‐gap semiconductor properties. Nonmagnetic impurities, so‐called Kondo holes, break the translational invariance and hence the coherence of the ground state. Impurity states can be introduced by (i) substituting the rare earth (actinide) ion or (ii) by replacing (or adding, removing) one of the ligand atoms. Isolated impurities usually give rise to bound states in the gap. Depending on the nature of the impurity (charge neutral or a dopand) the Fermi level is pinned by the impurity level or lies in the gap. In the former case the Kondo hole has magnetic properties (Curie susceptibility and Schottky anomaly in the specific heat), while in the latter situation the properties are nonmagnetic. For a finite concentration of Kondo holes the situations (i) and (ii) are qualitatively different. In (i) it gives rise to an impurity band inside the gap of the semiconductor. The height and width of the impurity band in the f‐electron density of states...