Kondo lattice with heavy fermions: peculiarities of spin kinetics

J Phys Condens Matter. 2012 Sep 12;24(36):365601. doi: 10.1088/0953-8984/24/36/365601. Epub 2012 Aug 21.

Abstract

A model of spin relaxation of Kondo lattices is proposed to explain the angular dependence of the electron spin resonance (ESR) parameters in the heavy fermion compounds Y bIr(2)Si(2) and Y bRh(2)Si(2). A perturbational scaling approach reveals a collective spin motion of Yb ions with conduction electrons in the bottleneck regime. A common energy scale due to the Kondo effect regulates the temperature dependence of different kinetic coefficients to result in a mutual cancelation of all divergent parts in a collective spin mode. The angular dependence of the ESR intensity, linewidth and resonant frequency is shown to be in good agreement with experimental data on Y bIr(2)Si(2) and Y bRh(2)Si(2). In particular, the unexpectedly weak dependence of the ESR intensity on the orientation of the microwave magnetic field agrees with the properties of the discussed model.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't