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Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 016401 (2007) [4 pages]

Fermi Surface and Antiferromagnetism in the Kondo Lattice: An Asymptotically Exact Solution in d>1 Dimensions

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Seiji J. Yamamoto and Qimiao Si
Department of Physics & Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA

Received 16 October 2006; published 3 July 2007

Interest in the heavy fermion metals has motivated us to examine the quantum phases and their Fermi surfaces within the Kondo lattice model. We demonstrate that the model is soluble asymptotically exactly in any dimension d>1, when the Kondo coupling is small compared with the RKKY interaction and in the presence of antiferromagnetic ordering. We show that the Kondo coupling is exactly marginal in the renormalization group sense, establishing the stability of an ordered phase with a small Fermi surface AFS. Our results have implications for the global phase diagram of the heavy fermion metals, suggesting a Lifshitz transition inside the antiferromagnetic region and providing a new perspective for a Kondo-destroying antiferromagnetic quantum critical point.

© 2007 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.016401
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.016401
PACS:
71.10.Hf, 71.27.+a, 71.28.+d, 75.20.Hr