Mean Field Description of Kondo-Stabilized Spin Liquid in Kondo Lattice with Heavy Fermions
Abstract
Microscopic mechanism of forming the spin liquid of neutral fermions in Kondo lattices with nearly integer valence of the f-electrons in presented. It is shown that the competition between the Kondo scattering and the indirect exchange interaction can result in stabilization of a state with separated spin and charge excitations with a Fermi-type spectrum for both of them. The origin of strong antiferromagnetic fluctuations is briefly discussed.