J M Lawrence et al 1981 Rep. Prog. Phys. 44 1 doi:10.1088/0034-4885/44/1/001
J M Lawrence, P S Riseborough and R D Parks
Show affiliationsValence fluctuation phenomena occur in rare-earth compounds in which the proximity of the 4f level to the Fermi energy leads to instabilities of the charge configuration (valence) and/or of the magnetic moment. The authors review the experimental results observed in the subset of such systems for which the 4f ions form a lattice with identical valence on each site. The discussion includes key thermodynamic experiments, such as susceptibility and lattice constant, and spectroscopic experiments such as XPS and neutron scattering. This is followed by a review of existing theoretical work concerning both the ground states and the isomorphic phase transitions which occur in such compounds; the emphasis is on those aspects which make valence fluctuation phenomena such a challenging many-body problem.
75.30.Mb Valence fluctuation, Kondo lattice, and heavy-fermion phenomena
75.40.-s Critical-point effects, specific heats, short-range order
65.40.-b Thermal properties of crystalline solids
79.60.Bm Clean metal, semiconductor, and insulator surfaces
75.30.Cr Saturation moments and magnetic susceptibilities
75.30.Kz Magnetic phase boundaries (including magnetic transitions, metamagnetism, etc.)
Condensed matter: electrical, magnetic and optical
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