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Mobility gap in intermediate valent TmSe

M. Dumm, B. Gorshunov, M. Dressel, T. Matsumura

cond-mat.str-elarXiv:cond-mat/0509652

Abstract

The infrared optical conductivity of intermediate valence compound TmSe reveals clear signatures for hybridization of light d- and heavy f-electronic states with m* ~ 1.6 m0 and m* ~ 16 m0, respectively. At moderate and high temperatures, the metal-like character of the heavy carriers dominate the low-frequency response while at low temperatures (TN < T < 100 K) a gap-like feature is observed in the conductivity spectra below 10 meV which is assigned to be a mobility gap due to localization of electrons on local Kondo singlets, rather than a hybridization gap in the density of states.

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