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Apr, 2013

Resolution of Entropy ln root 2 by Ordering in Two-Channel Kondo Lattice

JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
  • Shintaro Hoshino
  • ,
  • Junya Otsuki
  • ,
  • Yoshio Kuramoto

Volume
82
Number
4
First page
044707
Last page
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.7566/JPSJ.82.044707
Publisher
PHYSICAL SOC JAPAN

Peculiar property of electronic order is clarified for the two-channel Kondo lattice. With two conduction electrons per site, the order parameter is a composite quantity involving both local and itinerant degrees of freedom. In contrast to the ordinary Kondo lattice, a heavy electron band is absent above the transition temperature, but is rapidly formed below it. The change of entropy associated with the ordering is found to be close to ln root 2 per site. This entropy corresponds to the residual entropy in a two-channel Kondo impurity, which has been regarded as due to localized free Majorana particles. The present composite order is interpreted as instability of Majorana particles toward non-Kramers conduction electrons plus heavy fermions that involve localized electrons.

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https://doi.org/10.7566/JPSJ.82.044707
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http://jpsj.ipap.jp/link?JPSJ/82/044707/
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  • DOI : 10.7566/JPSJ.82.044707
  • ISSN : 0031-9015
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000316940100037

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