Apr, 2013
Resolution of Entropy ln root 2 by Ordering in Two-Channel Kondo Lattice
JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
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- Volume
- 82
- Number
- 4
- First page
- 044707
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- 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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- DOI : 10.7566/JPSJ.82.044707
- ISSN : 0031-9015
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000316940100037