Phonon softening and double-well potential formation due to electron-phonon interaction in heavy-fermion systems
Abstract
We investigate the periodic Anderson-Holstein model by using the dynamical mean-field theory combined with the exact diagonalization method. For the strong electron-phonon coupling g gc, the system shows an anomalous heavy-fermion behaviour which is accompanied by a large lattice fluctuation and an extreme phonon softening. We also calculate an effective potential for the ions and find that a simple harmonic potential for g gc changes into a double-well potential for g gc. The effective pairing interaction between the conduction electrons shows a maximum at g ≈ gc where the superconducting transition temperature is expected to be maximum.
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