Electronic landscape of the f-electron intermetallics with the ThCr₂Si₂ structure.

ABSTRACT: Although strongly correlated f-electron systems are well known as reservoirs for quantum phenomena, a persistent challenge is to design specific states. What is often missing are simple ways to determine whether a given compound can be expected to exhibit certain behaviors and what tuning vector(s) would be useful to select the ground state. In this review, we address this question by aggregating information about Ce, Eu, Yb, and U compounds with the ThCr₂Si₂ structure. We construct electronic/magnetic state maps that are parameterized in terms of unit cell volumes and d-shell filling, which reveals useful trends including that (i) the magnetic and nonmagnetic examples are well separated, and (ii) the crossover regions harbor the examples with exotic sta

SUBMITTER: Lai Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9365280 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature