A microscopic Kondo lattice model for the heavy fermion antiferromagnet CeIn3

W. Simeth, Z. Wang, E. A. Ghioldi, D. M. Fobes, A. Podlesnyak, N. H. Sung, E. D. Bauer, J. Lass, S. Flury, J. Vonka, D. G. Mazzone, C. Niedermayer, Yusuke Nomura, Ryotaro Arita, C. D. Batista, F. Ronning and M. Janoschek ()
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W. Simeth: Paul Scherrer Institute
Z. Wang: The University of Tennessee
E. A. Ghioldi: The University of Tennessee
D. M. Fobes: Los Alamos National Laboratory
A. Podlesnyak: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
N. H. Sung: Los Alamos National Laboratory
E. D. Bauer: Los Alamos National Laboratory
J. Lass: Paul Scherrer Institute
S. Flury: Paul Scherrer Institute
J. Vonka: Paul Scherrer Institute
D. G. Mazzone: Paul Scherrer Institute
C. Niedermayer: Paul Scherrer Institute
Yusuke Nomura: RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science
Ryotaro Arita: RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science
C. D. Batista: The University of Tennessee
F. Ronning: Los Alamos National Laboratory
M. Janoschek: Paul Scherrer Institute

Nature Communications, 2023, vol. 14, issue 1, 1-10

Abstract: Abstract Electrons at the border of localization generate exotic states of matter across all classes of strongly correlated electron materials and many other quantum materials with emergent functionality. Heavy electron metals are a model example, in which magnetic interactions arise from the opposing limits of localized and itinerant electrons. This remarkable duality is intimately related to the emergence of a plethora of novel quantum matter states such as unconventional superconductivity, electronic-nematic states, hidden order and most recently topological states of matter such as topological Kondo insulators and Kondo semimetals and putative chiral superconductors. The outstanding challenge is that the archetypal Kondo lattice model that captures the underlying electronic dichotomy is notoriously difficult to solve for real materials. Here we show, using the prototypical strongly-correlated antiferromagnet CeIn3, that a multi-orbital periodic Anderson model embedded with input from ab initio bandstructure calculations can be reduced to a simple Kondo-Heisenberg model, which captures the magnetic interactions quantitatively. We validate this tractable Hamiltonian via high-resolution neutron spectroscopy that reproduces accurately the magnetic soft modes in CeIn3, which are believed to mediate unconventional superconductivity. Our study paves the way for a quantitative understanding of metallic quantum states such as unconventional superconductivity.

Date: 2023
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