Doniach diagram for ordered, disordered and underscreened Kondo lattices

TL;DR

This paper extends Doniach's phase diagram to various Kondo lattice systems, including ordered, disordered, and underscreened compounds, highlighting the competition between Kondo effect, magnetic order, and spin glass phases.

Contribution

It generalizes the Doniach diagram to encompass different Kondo lattice variations, explaining diverse magnetic and electronic phases in these systems.

Findings

Unified phase diagram for ordered and disordered Kondo systems

Identification of coexistence regions between Kondo effect and magnetic order

Application to cerium and uranium compounds

Abstract

The Doniach's diagram has been originally proposed to describe the competition between the local Kondo effect and the intersite RKKY interactions in cerium compounds. Here we discuss the extension of this diagram to different variations of Kondo lattice model. We consider a) ordered cerium compounds where the competition between magnetic order and Kondo effect plays an important role, as $CeRh_2Si_2$, b) disordered cerium systems with competing spin glass phase, magnetic ordered phases and a Kondo phase, as the heavy fermion cerium alloy $CeCu_xNi_{1-x}$ and, c) uranium compounds where a coexistence between Kondo effect and ferromagnetic order has been observed, as UTe. We show that all these cases can be described by a generalized Doniach phase diagram.