Fermi-liquid and non-Fermi-liquid behavior in metallic antiferromagnets

Citation
Vy. Irkhin et Mi. Katsnel'Son, Fermi-liquid and non-Fermi-liquid behavior in metallic antiferromagnets, PHYS MET R, 89, 2000, pp. S13-S20
Citations number
61
Categorie Soggetti
Apllied Physucs/Condensed Matter/Materiales Science",Metallurgy
Journal title
PHYSICS OF METALS AND METALLOGRAPHY
ISSN journal
0031918X → ACNP
Volume
89
Year of publication
2000
Supplement
1
Pages
S13 - S20
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-918X(2000)89:<S13:FANBIM>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
The perturbation theory in terms of the s-f exchange model is used to analy ze the problem of a non-Fermi-liquid behavior in two-dimensional (2D) and t hree-dimensional (3D) antiferromagnetic (AFM) metals. The effects of intera ction of conduction electrons with spin waves on the electron spectrum, the rmodynamic properties, and transport properties are considered. At very low temperatures T < T* similar to (Delta/E-F)T-N, where Delta is the AFM spli tting of the electron spectrum, a Fermi-liquid behavior is observed; in the 3D case, there are nonanalytic corrections to heat capacity of an order of T(3)lnT. At T> T*, in the 2D case and in 3D systems in which "nesting" in the electron spectrum is observed (or anomalies in the magnon spectrum are present), the physical picture corresponds to the marginal Fermi liquid (of which the contributions of the TlnT type to the heat capacity and almost l inear temperature dependence of the resistivity are typical). Contributions to the resistivity and thermoelectric power due to the interference of spi n-wave and impurity-related scattering are discussed.