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Enhanced Valence Fluctuations Caused by f-c Coulomb Interaction in Ce-Based Heavy Electrons: Possible Origin of Pressure-Induced Enhancement of Superconducting Transition Temperature in CeCu 2 Ge 2 and Related Compounds

2000; Physical Society of Japan; Volume: 69; Issue: 12 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1143/jpsj.69.3955

1347-4073

Yoshifumi Onishi, Kazumasa Miyake,

Magnetic Properties of Alloys

Properties of an extended periodic Anderson model with the f-c Coulomb interaction $\Ufc$ is studied as a model for \Ge and related compounds which is cosidered to exhibit a sharp valence change under pressure. The problem is treated by extending the {\it slave-boson} and large-N expansion method to treat the present system. It is shown that, as the f-level $\epsilon_{\rm f}$ is increased relative to the Fermi level, the sharp valence change is caused by the effect of $\Ufc$ with moderate strength of the order of the bandwith of conduction electrons. The superconducting transition temperature $T_\rc$ due to the valence-fluctuation exchange is estimated on the slave-boson fluctuation approximation. In the model with spherical Fermi surface, $T_\rc$ exhibits sharp peak as a function of $\epsilon_{\rm f}$, simulating the effect of pressure, for the d-wave pairing channel.