Effects of valence fluctuation and pseudogap formation on phonon thermal conductivity of Ce-based compounds with ε-TiNiSi-type structure

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 66 巻 22 号 224304-1-224304-6 頁 2002-12-19 発行
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Effects of valence fluctuation and pseudogap formation on phonon thermal conductivity of Ce-based compounds with ε-TiNiSi-type structure
作成者
Sasakawa Tetsuya
Suemitsu Toshiaki
Echizen Yuji
収録物名
Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
66
22
開始ページ 224304-1
終了ページ 224304-6
抄録
We have measured the thermal conductivity of isostructural compounds CePtSn, CeNiSn, CeRhSb, and CeRhAs with the orthorhombic ε-TiNiSi-type structure. It is found that the phonon thermal conductivity is reduced in a systematic way with increasing Kondo temperature TK. The scattering of phonons by valence fluctuations should play a dominant role in such a reduction. The gap formation in the electronic density of states enhances the phonon thermal conductivity significantly in CeRhAs with a gap width of 280 K, while it is weak in CeNiSn or CeRhSb with a pseudogap of 20-30 K. A phenomenological model is proposed for the unusual temperature dependence of phonon thermal conductivity by taking account of the strong dependence of the electron-phonon scattering rate on both TK and the energy gap.
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英語
資源タイプ 学術雑誌論文
出版者
American Physical Society
発行日 2002-12-19
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Copyright (c) 2002 The American Physical Society.
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[ISSN] 1098-0121
[DOI] 10.1103/PhysRevB.66.224304
[NCID] AA11187113
[DOI] http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.66.224304