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1） 什么是重费米子及重费米子超导体

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3） 什么样的材料可以称为重费米子材料

 

 

 

In the case of electrons, below a characteristic temperature (typically below 10K) the conduction electrons in these metallic compounds behave as if they had an effective mass up to 1000 times the free-electron mass.

 

 

The f-electrons of these atoms hybridize with the normal conduction electrons leading to quasiparticles with an enhanced mass.^{[citation needed]}

 

参考文献：

http://rmp.aps.org/abstract/RMP/v56/i4/p755_1

Rev. Mod. Phys.                      56,                      755–787                      (1984)

 

 

http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v9/n8/full/nphys2672.html

 

Visualizing nodal heavy fermion superconductivity in CeCoIn₅

 

 

Heavy-fermion systems

 

 

 

来自Wikipedia的解释：

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_fermion

 

In solid-state physics, heavy fermion materials are a specific type of intermetallic compound, containing elements with 4f or 5f electrons.^[1] Electrons are one type of fermion, and when they are found in such materials they are sometimes referred to as heavy electrons.^[2] Heavy fermion materials have a low-temperature specific heat whose linear term is up to 1000 times larger than the value expected from the free-electron theory. 【比热很低】The properties of the heavy fermion compounds derive from the partly filled f-orbitals of rare earth or actinide ions which behave like localized magnetic moments.

     The name "heavy fermion" comes from the fact that the fermion behaves as if it has an effective mass greater than its rest mass.

In the case of electrons, below a characteristic temperature (typically below 10K) the conduction electrons in these metallic compounds behave as if they had an effective mass up to 1000 times the free-electron mass.

This large effective mass is also reflected in a large contribution to the resistivity from electron-electron scattering via the Kadowaki Woods ratio.

 

Heavy fermion behavior has been found in a broad variety of states including metallic, superconducting, insulating and magnetic states.

Characteristic examples are CeCu₆, CeAl₃, CeCu₂Si₂, YbAl₃, UBe₁₃ and UPt₃.

 

 

Historical Overview[edit]

Heavy fermion behavior was discovered by Andres, Graebner and Ott in 1975, who observed enormous magnitudes of the linear specific heat capacity in CeAl₃.^[3]

While investigations on doped superconductors led to the conclusion that the existence of localized magnetic moments and superconductivity in one material was incompatible, the opposite was shown, when in 1979 Steglichet al. discovered heavy fermion superconductivity in the material CeCu₂Si₂.^[4]

The discovery of a quantum critical point and non fermi liquid behavior in the phase diagram of heavy fermion compounds by von Löhneysen et al. in 1995 led to a new rise of interest in the research of these compounds.^[5]

Heavy fermion materials play an important role in current scientific research, acting as prototypical materials for unconventional superconductivity, non fermi liquid behavior and quantum critically. The actual interaction between localized magnetic moments and conduction electrons in heavy fermion compounds is still not completely understood and a topic of ongoing investigation.

Properties of heavy fermion materials[edit]

Heavy fermion materials belong to the group of strongly correlated electron systems.

Several members of the group of heavy fermion materials, become superconducting below a critical temperature. The superconductivity is unconventional.

At high temperatures heavy fermion compounds behave like normal metals and the electrons can be described as a Fermi gas, in which the electrons are assumed to be non-interacting fermions. In this case the interaction between the f-electrons, which present a local magnetic moment and the conduction electrons is neglected.

The Fermi liquid theory by Landau provides a good model to describe the properties of most heavy fermion materials at low temperatures. In this theory the electrons are described by quasiparticles, which have the same quantum numbers and charge, but the interaction of the electrons is taken into account by introducing an effective mass, which differs from the actual mass of a free electron.

Optical Properties[edit]

In order to obtain the optical properties of heavy fermion systems, these materials have been investigated by optical spectroscopy measurements. In these experiments, the sample is irradiated by electromagnetic waves with tuneable wavelength. Measuring the reflected or transmitted light reveals the characteristic energies of the sample.

Above the characteristic coherence temperature , heavy fermion materials behave like normal metals; i.e. their optical response is described by the Drude model. But compared to a good metal, heavy fermion compounds at high temperatures have a high scattering rate because of the large density of local magnetic moments (at least one f-electron per unit cell), which cause (incoherent) Kondo scattering. Due to the high scattering rate, the conductivity for dc and at low frequencies is rather low. A conductivity roll-off (Drude roll-off) occurs at the frequency that corresponds to the relaxation rate.

Below , the localized f-electrons hybridize with the conduction electrons. This leads to the enhanced effective mass, and a hybridization gap develops. In contrast to Kondo insulators, the chemical potential of heavy fermion compounds lies within the conduction band. These changes lead to two important features in the optical response of heavy fermions.^[1]

The frequency-dependent conductivity of heavy-fermion materials can be expressed by , containing the effective mass and the renormalized relaxation rate .^[6] Due to the large effective mass, the renormalized relaxation time is also enhanced, leading to a narrow Drude roll-off at very low frequencies compared to normal metals.

The gap-like feature in the optical conductivity represents directly the hybridization gap, which opens due to the interaction of localized f-electrons and conduction electrons. Since the conductivity does not vanish completely, the observed gap is actually a pseudogap. ^[7] At even higher frequencies we can observe a local maximum in the optical conductivity due to normal interband excitations.^[1]

Heat Capacity[edit]The specific heat for normal metals[edit]

At low temperature and for normal metals, the specific heat C_P consists of the specific heat of the electrons C_P,el which depends linearly on temperature T and of the specific heat of the crystal lattice vibrations (phonons) C_P,ph which depends cubically on temperature

with proportionality constants β and γ.

In the temperature range mentioned above, the electronic contribution is the major part of the specific heat. For the free-electron gas — a simple model system that neglects electron interaction — or metals that could be described by it, the electronic specific heat is given by

with Boltzmann's factor k_B, the electron density n and the Fermi energy ε_F (the highest single particle energy of occupied electronic states). The proportionality constant γ is called the Sommerfeld parameter.

Relation between heat capacity and "thermal effective mass"[edit]

For electrons with a quadratic dispersion relation (as for the free-electron gas), the Fermi energy ε_F is inversely proportional to the particle's mass m:

where k_F stands for the Fermi wave number that depends on the electron density and is the absolute value of the wave number of the highest occupied electron state. Thus, because the Sommerfeld parameter γ is inversely proportional to ε_F, γ is proportional to the particle's mass and for high values of γ, the metal behaves as a free electron gas in which the conduction electrons have a high thermal effective mass.

Example: heat capacity for UBe₁₃ at low temperatures[edit]

Experimental results for the specific heat of the heavy fermion compound UBe₁₃ show a peak at a temperature around 0.75 K that goes down to zero with a high slope if the temperature approaches 0 K. Due to this peak, the γ-factor is much higher than for the free-electron gas in this temperature range. In contrast, above 6 K the specific heat for this heavy fermion compound approaches the value expected from free-electron theory.

References[edit]

Books[edit]

• Kittel, Charles (1996) Introduction to Solid State Physics, 7th Ed., John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

• Marder, M.P. (2000), Condensed Matter Physics, John Wiley & Sons, New York.

• Hewson, A.C. (1993), The Kondo Problem to Heavy Fermions, Cambridge University Press.

• Fulde, P. (1995), Electron Correlations in Molecules and Solids, Springer, Berlin.

 

 

重费米子超导体：

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_fermion_superconductor

 

Heavy fermion superconductors are a type of Unconventional superconductor.

The first heavy fermion superconductor, CeCu₂Si₂, was discovered by Frank Steglich in 1978.^[1]

Since then over 30 heavy fermion superconductors were found (in materials based on Ce, U), with a critical temperature up to 2.3 K (in CeCoIn₅).^[2]

Material	TC (K)
CeCu2Si2	0.7
CeCoIn5	2.3
CeIn3	0.2
UPt3	0.48
URu2Si2	1.3
UPd2Al3	2.0
UPd2Al3	1.1

Heavy Fermions are intermetallic compounds, containing rare earth or actinide elements. The f-electrons of these atoms hybridize with the normal conduction electrons leading to quasiparticles with an enhanced mass.^{[citation needed]}

From specific heat measurements (ΔC/C(T_C) one knows that the Cooper pairs in the superconducting state are also formed by the heavy quasiparticles.^[3] In contrast to normal superconductors it cannot be described by BCS-Theory. Due to the large effective mass,^[4] the Fermi velocity is reduced and comparable to the inverse Debye frequency. This leads to the failing of the picture of electrons polarizing the lattice as an attractive force.^{[citation needed]}

Some heavy fermion superconductors are candidate materials for the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) phase.^[5] In particular there has been evidence that CeCoIn₅ close to the critical field is in an FFLO state.^[6]

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