https://doi.org/10.1007/s100510050571
Some comments on Kondo lattices and the Mott transition
Institut Laue Langevin, BP 156, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
Corresponding author: a nozieres@ill.fr
Received:
5
May
1998
Accepted:
29
July
1998
Published online: 15 December 1998
The so called exhaustion problem occurs when few electrons have to screen
many spins in a metal with magnetic impurities. A singlet Fermi liquid
ground state is possible only if all impurities are “isotropized” in such
a way as to suppress their entropy. That takes a time 
and the
corresponding energy 
limits the Fermi liquid range. The present note explores that
issue of time and energy scales, and it concludes that 
is
much smaller than the single impurity Kondo temperature. Similarly the
relevant energy scale is proportional to the number of electrons. Recent
results on the Mott metal insulator transition in infinite dimension are
reconsidered in the light of these results: controversies in that respect
are shown to reduce to a simple physical question, with no firm answer as to
now.
PACS: 75.20.Hr – Local moment in compounds and alloys; Kondo effect, valence fluctuations, heavy fermions / 75.30.Mb – Valence fluctuation, Kondo lattice, and heavy-fermion phenomena / 71.30.+h – Metal insulator transitions and other electronic transitions
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 1998
