Heavy fermion behaviour of the cerium-filled skutterudites and
- 10 August 1998
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
- Vol. 10 (31), 6973-6985
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/10/31/013
Abstract
The low temperature properties of polycrystalline samples of the filled skutterudites and , as well as the unfilled skutterudites and , have been investigated by means of electrical resistivity, specific heat and magnetic susceptibility measurements. The resistivity of exhibits a rather abrupt drop-off with decreasing temperature near 100 K; this drop-off temperature increases with increasing applied hydrostatic pressure, which is reminiscent of the onset of coherence in so-called Kondo lattice materials. The compounds and exhibit values of the electronic specific heat coefficient and Pauli susceptibility at low temperature which are enhanced over those of the lanthanum-filled and unfilled skutterudites. These quantities yield a Wilson ratio of order unity, which indicates that they both correspond to the properties of itinerant electrons. These transport, magnetic and thermodynamic properties suggest a moderately heavy fermion ground state in and .Keywords
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