Metamagnetic-like Transition and Elastic Anomaly of Heavy-Fermion Compounds

博士 === 國立清華大學 === 物理研究所 === 83 === Based on the Anderson lattice model in the slave boson mean field method, we study the heavy-fermion systems, HF, in two topics: the anomalous metamagnetic-like transition and the elastic anomaly. Experimentally, the mag...

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Main Authors: Jyh-Horng Lin, 林志鴻
Other Authors: Tzay-Ming Hong, PhD.
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 1995
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/50433769524541067759
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Summary:博士 === 國立清華大學 === 物理研究所 === 83 === Based on the Anderson lattice model in the slave boson mean field method, we study the heavy-fermion systems, HF, in two topics: the anomalous metamagnetic-like transition and the elastic anomaly. Experimentally, the magnetic susceptbility in several HF including CeRu2Si2 and UPt3 shows a peak at some critical field. This is called the metamagnetic-like transition. Theoretically, a similar transition was found for CeRu2Si2 at the mean-field level when the anisotropy of the hybridization matrix element is considered. Here we find that the same conclusion applied to UPt3. On the other hand, the elastic constant exhibits a dip at low temperature in some HF. Since the Anderson lattice model can not be solved analytically, numerically means is used and its results fit the experimental data qualitatively. Besides these, we mention works on the specific heat of ideal particles in multilayer systems, for which a Schottky-like anomaly is found both classical and quantum systems. This is different from the usual scenario for the Schottky anomaly since there is no energy gap for the charge excitation. For bosons, we find a second peak when the layer number is large, which is ascribed to the trend towards Bose condesation. We also study a two-body problem problem in which two particles are linked by a spring and put in an one-dimensional infinite potential well. These two potentials when seperated can each be solved exactly, but when combined it becomes extremely difficult to solve. We use the variational method to obtain the groundstate energy and asymptotic expressions, and discuss some related problems, such as the finite-size effect in quantum Hall effect and the energy level of an hydrogen molecule H2+.