Kwasigroch, MP; Hu, Huanzhi; Krüger, F; Green, AG; (2022) Magnetic hard-direction ordering in anisotropic Kondo systems. Physical Review B , 105 (22) , Article 224418. 10.1103/physrevb.105.224418.

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Abstract

We present a generic mechanism that explains why many Kondo materials show magnetic ordering along directions that are not favoured by the crystal-field anisotropy. Using a renormalization-group (RG) analysis of single impurity Kondo models with single-ion anisotropy, we demonstrate that strong fluctuations above the Kondo temperature drive a moment re-orientation over a wide range of parameters, e.g. for different spin values $S$ and number of Kondo channels $N$. In tetragonal systems this can happen for both easy-plane or easy axis anisotropy. The characteristic crossing of magnetic susceptibilities is not an artefact of the weak-coupling RG treatment but can be reproduced in brute-force perturbation theory. Employing numerical renormalization group (NRG), we show that for an under-screened moment ($S=1$, $N=1$) with easy-plane anisotropy, a crossing of magnetic susceptibilities can also occur in the strong-coupling regime (below the Kondo temperature). This suggests that collective magnetic ordering of such under-screened moments would develop along the magnetic hard axis.

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