Temperature and field dependence of the thermodynamic and transport properties of Ce3Bi4Pt3
- 1 March 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Philosophical Magazine Part B
- Vol. 73 (3), 525-542
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13642819608239133
Abstract
We have calculated the temperature and field dependence of various thermo-dynamic and transport properties for the insulating phase of the Anderson lattice Hamiltonian using a slave boson approach. The conduction band was assumed to be a tight binding cubic s-band. The transport properties were calculated assuming impurity scattering and using a relaxation time approximation. Many-body effects due to the on-site f electron Coulomb repulsion are shown to be crucial in describing the mixed valence nature and the different energy scales observed in Ce3Bi4Pt3. The calculated electrical conductivity and thermopower agree with experiment but the Hall constant does not. We present predictions for the thermal conductivity and the thermoelectric figure of merit as a function of temperature. We predict that under a magnetic field Hc≃90T the system undergoes a transition from an insulator to a metal with a finite magnetic susceptibility and specific heatKeywords
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