Partial Kondo Screening and Anomalous Thermal Conductance

Abstract

The frustrated magnetism on the Kondo lattice system motivates intriguing Kondo-breakdown beyond the traditional Doniach scenario. Among them, the fractionalized Fermi liquid (FL*) has drawn a particular interest by virtue of its fractionalized nature. Here, we study the phase diagram of $J_1$-$J_2$ Kondo-Heisenberg model on a honeycomb lattice at a quarter filling. Employing the slave-fermion mean-field theory with $d\pm id$ spin liquid ansatz and exact diagonalization, we discuss the emergence of partial Kondo screening in the frustrated regime with comparable $J_1$ and $J_2$, and the fractionalized superconductor (SC*) which is superconductor analogy of the FL*. Due to the larger number of local spin moments than itinerant electrons, the magnetic fluctuation is still significant even in the strong-coupling limit, which influences the thermodynamic and transport properties qualitatively. In particular, we estimate the thermal conductance to probe the low-energy excitation and show the anomalous behaviour in the SC* phase contrast to the conventional superconductors.

7 pages, 4 figures

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• Fermi-liquid instabilities at magnetic quantum phase transitions
• Quantum Criticality in Heavy Fermion Metals
• Weak magnetism and non-Fermi liquids near heavy-fermion critical points
• Fractionalized Fermi liquids
• Frustration and the Kondo effect in heavy fermion materials
• Competition between spin liquids and valence-bond order in the frustrated spin-$1/2$ Heisenberg model on the honeycomb lattice
• Unconventional Superconductivity from Local Spin Fluctuations in the Kondo Lattice