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Effect of Hydrostatic Pressure on the Kondo Effect in the Heavy Fermion System Yb2Fe3Si5

Yogesh Singh, S. Ramakrishnan, C. Geibel

cond-mat.str-elarXiv:cond-mat/0311548

Abstract

We report the effect of hydrostatic pressure on the resistivity of the heavy fermion Kondo lattice compound Yb2Fe3Si5 in the temperature range 2-300 K and in pressures upto 10 Kbar. At ambient pressure the resistivity shows a prominent Kondo effect. The Kondo minimum shifts from 22.5 K at ambient pressure to 19.2 K at a pressure of 10 Kbar. The depth of the Kondo minimum also progressively decreases with pressure. These results suggest a possible weakening of the Kondo effect with the application of pressure.

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