The ground-state properties of f-electron compounds are characterized by strong interactions which lead to a plethora of exotic states. In this thesis we focused on compounds crystallizing in the tetragonal HonCoGa3n+2-type structure. Several new compounds have been synthesized from In-flux; particularly enigmatic are Ce3TIn11 (T = Pd, Pt). These compounds possess two inequivalent Ce-sites and reveal coexistence of antiferromagnetic order and heavy fermion superconductivity at ambient pressure. This coexistence can be explained in the framework of two-Kondo ion lattice model, assuming one Ce-site being completely Kondo screened with the 4f-electron behaving itinerant and participating in superconductivity while the second Ce-site retains its local character giving rise to magnetic order via the RKKY interaction. The influence of crystal electric field on the magnetic ground state has been investigated on the Kondo compound Ce2RhIn8 by means of neutron experiments. U2RhIn8 and URhIn5 behave like transition-metal antiferromagnets, contrary to Ce(4f)-counterparts. The 5f-states are entirely hybridized and Kondo interactions play no role. Neither does it in the investigated RE2CoIn8 (RE = Pr, Nd, Dy) compounds which exhibit strong localized 4f-electron behavior. Here, the influence of strong...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:349366 |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Creators | Kratochvílová, Marie |
| Contributors | Custers, Jeroen, Abd-Elmeguid, Mohsen, De Boer, Frank Roelof |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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