Quantum Critical Point in the Spin Glass-Kondo Transition in Heavy Fermion Systems

TL;DR

This paper investigates the quantum critical points in a theoretical model of heavy fermion systems, revealing two distinct quantum critical points associated with transitions from spin-glass to paramagnetic and Kondo states.

Contribution

It introduces a mean field theoretical model combining spin-glass and Kondo interactions with a transverse field, identifying two separate quantum critical points.

Findings

Two second order transition lines from spin-glass to paramagnetic and Kondo states.

Identification of two distinct quantum critical points without intersection.

Model predicts phase transitions in heavy fermion systems.

Abstract

The Kondo-Spin Glass competition is studied in a theoretical model of a Kondo lattice with an intra-site Kondo type exchange interaction treated within the mean field approximation, an inter-site quantum Ising exchange interaction with random couplings among localized spins and an additional transverse field in the x direction, which represents a simple quantum mechanism of spin flipping. We obtain two second order transition lines from the spin-glass state to the paramagnetic one and then to the Kondo state. For a reasonable set of the different parameters, the two second order transition lines do not intersect and end in two distinct QCP.