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Kondo Lattice Behavior in the Ordered Dilute Magnetic Semiconductor Yb14-xLaxMnSb11

B. C. Sales, P. Khalifah, T. P. Enck, E. J. Nagler, R. E. Sykora, R. Jin, D. Mandrus

cond-mat.str-elarXiv:cond-mat/0508132

Abstract

We report Hall, magnetic, heat capacity and doping studies from single crystals of Yb14MnSb11 and Yb13.3La0.7MnSb11. These heavily doped semiconducting compounds are ferromagnetic below 53 K and 39 K respectively. The renormalization of the carrier mass from 2 me near room temperature to 15 me at 5 K, plus the magnetic evidence for partial screening of the Mn magnetic moments suggest that these compounds represent rare examples of an underscreened Kondo lattice with TK = 350 K.

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