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    This document summarizes key aspects of the single-site Kondo problem and magnetic impurity problem. It discusses how a single f-shell atom immersed in a Fermi sea, like a Ce atom in LaA12, presents the same problem. The magnetic impurity problem can be treated using the single impurity Anderson model or the Kondo Hamiltonian. At zero temperature, the antiferromagnetic Kondo interaction binds the f-spin to the electron sea to form an overall singlet with a binding energy. At high temperatures, the f-spin behaves essentially freely and contributes a Curie term to the susceptibility, so it is viewed as a magnetic impurity.

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    This document summarizes key aspects of the single-site Kondo problem and magnetic impurity problem. It discusses how a single f-shell atom immersed in a Fermi sea, like a Ce atom in LaA12, presents the same problem. The magnetic impurity problem can be treated using the single impurity Anderson model or the Kondo Hamiltonian. At zero temperature, the antiferromagnetic Kondo interaction binds the f-spin to the electron sea to form an overall singlet with a binding energy. At high temperatures, the f-spin behaves essentially freely and contributes a Curie term to the susceptibility, so it is viewed as a magnetic impurity.

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    632 Ch.

    11 Mixed Valence and Heavy Fermions

    superposition of f-c singlets, and the great physical and historical in-
    terest of the single impurity problem, demand that we briefly review the
    results about the single-site Kondo problem (Sec. 11.3.1). Afterwards,
    we discuss the indirect f-f exchange which is mediated by the con-
    duction electrons (Sec. 11.3.2). This prepares the ground for a cursory
    discussion of the competition of magnetic and non-magnetic phases in
    the KLM, which is still an open problem. However, a little detour to
    the subject of the magnetism of rare earth elements (Sec. 11.4) makes
    it clear that the physics of real f-electron substances requires going
    beyond the simple KLM.

    11.3.1 Kondo Impurity


    Usually we confine our interest to lattice problems, but the remarkable
    similarity of the T > T* behaviour of periodic Kondo systems to that
    expected from dilute alloys makes a brief discussion of the impurity
    problem indispensable. Let us consider a single f-shell immersed into a
    Fermi sea, say, a single Ce atom in bulk LaA12. A Mn or Fe impurity
    in Cu or A1 presents the same problem in &electron version. This is
    the renowned magnetic impurity problem [ 139, 1641 whose treatment
    can be based either on the single-impurity Anderson model [19], or - in
    the appropriate limit - on the single impurity Kondo Hamiltonian [223].
    We start with the latter

    ..

    ( 11.27)
    The derivation in Appendix D makes it plausible that the Kondo term
    is essentially an independent-impurity result, thus we may think of J as
    given by (11.26).
    Let us try to anticipate the character of the solution. At T = 0, the
    AF Kondo interaction binds the f-spin to the electron sea, presumably
    forming an overall singlet, with a binding energy Eo(J). At high tem-
    peratures (T >> Eo(J ) / ~ B )the
    , f-spin is essentially free, contributing
    an almost full-size Curie term to the susceptibility, thus it is proper to
    speak about a magnetic impurity. Conduction electrons scattering of€
    the f-shell may undergo spin-flip, as well as ordinary potential, scatter-

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