Protracted Kondo coherence with dilute carrier density in Cerium based nickel pnictides

Abstract

Nozi$\grave{e}$res' exhaustion theory argues the temperature for coherently screening of all local moments in Kondo lattice could be much lower than the temperature of single moment screening with insufficient number of conduction electrons. Recent experiment [Luo et al, PNAS, 112,13520 (2015)] indicates the cerium based nickel pnictides $CeN{i}_{2-\delta }A{s}_2(\delta \approx 0.28)$ with low carrier density is an ideal material to exam such protracted Kondo screening. Using the density functional theory and dynamical mean-field theory, we calculated the respective electronic structures of paramagnetic $CeN{i}_{2}A{s}_2$/$CeN{i}_2{P}_2$. In contrast to structurally analogous layered iron pnictides, the electronic structures of the present systems show strong three-dimensionality with substantially small contributions of Ni-3d electrons to the carrier density. Moreover, we find significant Kondo resonance peaks in the compressed $CeN{i}_{2}A{s}_2$ and $CeN{i}_2{P}_2$ at low temperatures, accompanied by topological changes of the Fermi surfaces. We also find similar quantum phase transition in $CeN{i}_{2}A{s}_2$ driven by chemical pressure via the isovalence As$\to$P substitution.

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