Search Menu
DOE PAGES title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information
Search Scholarly Publications

Title: Kondo-Induced Giant Isotropic Negative Thermal Expansion

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [5]; ORCiD logo [6];  [7]; ORCiD logo [8];  [9];  [10];  [3]
  1. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) and Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Dept.
  2. Kent State Univ., Kent, OH (United States)
  3. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II)
  4. RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Sayo, Hyogo (Japan)
  5. National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu (Taiwan)
  6. Synchrotron SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette (France); Sorbonne Univ., Paris (France)
  7. Synchrotron SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
  8. Nagoya Univ. (Japan)
  9. National Inst. for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba (Japan); Univ. of Tokyo (Japan)
  10. Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (United States)
+ Show Author Affiliations

Negative thermal expansion is an unusual phenomenon appearing in only a handful of materials, but pursuit and mastery of the phenomenon holds great promise for applications across disciplines and industries. Here we report use of x-ray spectroscopy and diffraction to investigate the 4$$f$$-electronic properties in Y-doped SmS and employ the Kondo volume collapse model to interpret the results. Our measurements reveal an unparalleled decrease of the bulk Sm valence by over 20% at low temperatures in the mixed-valent golden phase, which we show is caused by a strong coupling between an emergent Kondo lattice state and a large isotropic volume change. We note the amplitude and temperature range of the negative thermal expansion appear strongly dependent on the Y concentration and the associated chemical disorder, providing control over the observed effect. This finding opens avenues for the design of Kondo lattice materials with tunable, giant, and isotropic negative thermal expansion.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF); National Science Foundation (NSF)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0012704; SC0016481; NSF-DMR-1506547; NSF-DMR- 1905862
OSTI ID:
1603286
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1606583; OSTI ID: 1607709
Report Number(s):
BNL-213670-2020-JAAM; BNL-213770-2020-JAAM; PRLTAO; TRN: US2104079
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 124, Issue 12; ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 9 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

References (42)

Origin of the black-golden transition in Sm 1- x Y x S journal March 2015
Q -dependence of the spin fluctuations in the intermediate valence compound CePd 3 journal May 2014
Intermediate valence and the hybridization model: A study on SmB6, “gold” SmS and YbB12 journal February 1985
Pressure Effects on the 4 f Electronic Structure of Light Lanthanides journal February 2019
Relationship between the local electronic and local crystal structures of intermediate-valence Sm1−x Y x S journal October 2006
Temperature dependence of Sm valence in SmB 6 studied by X-ray absorption spectroscopy journal June 2009
Continuous and Discontinuous Semiconductor-Metal Transition in Samarium Monochalcogenides Under Pressure journal November 1970
Probing the γ − α Transition in Bulk Ce under Pressure: A Direct Investigation by Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering journal June 2006
Virtual Bound States and Configurational Mixing in Sm 1 − x Y x S Alloys journal February 1975
Additional energy scale in SmB6 at low-temperature journal December 2016
Pseudogap Formation near at the Border of an Insulator–Metal Transition in SmS journal March 2007
Poisson's ratio limits and effects of hydrostatic pressure on the elastic behaviour of Sm 1-x Y x S alloys in the intermediate valence state journal September 1984
Pressure–Temperature Phase Diagram of Golden SmS journal October 2009
Two Fluid Description of the Kondo Lattice journal January 2004
Excitonic Instability in the Transition from the Black Phase to the Golden Phase of SmS under Pressure Investigated by Infrared Spectroscopy journal November 2008
Phonons and Thermal Expansion Behavior of NiSi and NiGe journal August 2018
GSAS-II : the genesis of a modern open-source all purpose crystallography software package journal March 2013
Thermal Signatures of the Kondo Volume Collapse in Cerium journal October 2008
Giant isotropic negative thermal expansion in Y-doped samarium monosulfides by intra-atomic charge transfer journal January 2019
Slow crossover in Yb X Cu 4 ( X =Ag, Cd, In, Mg, Tl, Zn) intermediate-valence compounds journal January 2001
Correlation between Bulk Thermodynamic Measurements and the Low-Temperature-Resistance Plateau in SmB 6 journal July 2014
Thermal expansion of the intermediate valence system Sm1-xYxS journal February 1986
Diffusionless γ ⇄ α Phase Transition in Polycrystalline and Single-Crystal Cerium journal February 2011
Discontinuous Transition from a Real Bound State to Virtual Bound State in a Mixed-Valence State of SmS journal November 2011
Electronic configuration mixing in Sm1−xYxS journal March 1976
Nonmagnetic 4 f Shell in the High-Pressure Phase of SmS journal August 1971
Heavy fermion semiconductors journal May 2000
Predicted topological phase transition in the SmS Kondo insulator under pressure journal March 2014
The GALAXIES beamline at the SOLEIL synchrotron: inelastic X-ray scattering and photoelectron spectroscopy in the hard X-ray range journal January 2015
Two Energy Scales and Slow Crossover in YbAl 3 journal March 2002
Coherent band excitations in CePd 3 : A comparison of neutron scattering and ab initio theory journal January 2018
Negative Thermal Expansion Near the Precipice of Structural Stability in Open Perovskites journal November 2018
Quantum Critical End Point for the Kondo Volume Collapse Model journal October 2006
The GALAXIES inelastic hard X-ray scattering end-station at Synchrotron SOLEIL journal January 2019
Kondo Volume Collapse and the γ → α Transition in Cerium journal October 1982
The α-γ transition in cerium is a Mott transition journal September 1974
Valence transitions of Sm in monosulfide solid solutions journal May 1975
Topological Properties and the Dynamical Crossover from Mixed-Valence to Kondo-Lattice Behavior in the Golden Phase of SmS journal April 2015
Near-field spectroscopic investigation of dual-band heavy fermion metamaterials journal December 2017
Two-fluid model for heavy electron physics journal May 2016
Similar temperature scale for valence changes in Kondo lattices with different Kondo temperatures journal May 2018
Kondo Interactions from Band Reconstruction in YbInCu 4 journal March 2015

Similar Records

Related Subjects

75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE