TY - JOUR
T1 - Fermi-surface reconstruction without breakdown of kondo screening at the quantum critical point
AU - Watanabe, Hiroshi
AU - Ogata, Masao
PY - 2007/9/25
Y1 - 2007/9/25
N2 - Motivated by recent Hall-effect experiment in YbRh2Si2, we study ground state properties of a Kondo lattice model in a two-dimensional square lattice using variational Monte Carlo method. We show that there are two types of phase transition, an antiferromagnetic transition and a topological one (Fermi-surface reconstruction). In a wide region of parameters, these two transitions occur simultaneously without the breakdown of Kondo screening, accompanied by a discontinuous change of the Hall coefficient. This result is consistent with the experiment and gives a novel theoretical picture for the quantum critical point in heavy-fermion systems.
AB - Motivated by recent Hall-effect experiment in YbRh2Si2, we study ground state properties of a Kondo lattice model in a two-dimensional square lattice using variational Monte Carlo method. We show that there are two types of phase transition, an antiferromagnetic transition and a topological one (Fermi-surface reconstruction). In a wide region of parameters, these two transitions occur simultaneously without the breakdown of Kondo screening, accompanied by a discontinuous change of the Hall coefficient. This result is consistent with the experiment and gives a novel theoretical picture for the quantum critical point in heavy-fermion systems.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.136401
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.136401
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34748877185
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 99
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 13
M1 - 136401
ER -