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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen
TT 3: Correlated Electrons: Heavy Fermions
TT 3.12: Talk
Monday, March 26, 2012, 12:30–12:45, H 3005
Finite-temperature spectra and quasiparticle interference in Kondo lattices: From light electrons to coherent heavy quasiparticles — •Adel Benlagra1, Thomas Pruschke2, and Matthias Vojta1 — 1Institut für theoretische physik, TU Dresden, Germany — 2Institut für theoretische physik, Universität Göttingen, Germany
Recent advances in scanning tunneling spectroscopy performed on heavy-fermion metals provide a window onto local electronic properties of composite heavy-electron quasiparticles. Here we theoretically investigate the energy and temperature evolution of single-particle spectra and their quasi- particle interference caused by point-like impurities in the framework of a periodic Anderson model. By numerically solving dynamical-mean-field-theory equations, we are able to access all temperatures and to capture the crossover from weakly interacting c and f electrons to fully coherent heavy quasiparticles. Remarkably, this crossover occurs in a dynamical fashion at an energy-dependent crossover temperature. We study in detail the associated Fermi-surface reconstruction and characterize the incoherent regime near the Kondo temperature. Finally, we link our results to current heavy-fermion experiments.