Francesco Parisen Toldin, Jeremy Figgins, Stefan Kirchner, Dirk K. Morr
Using a large-N approach, we study the effect of disorder in the Kondo-screened phase of heavy-fermion materials. We demonstrate that the strong feedback between the hybridization and the conduction electron charge density magnifies the effect of disorder, such that already small concentrations of defects strongly disorder the materials' local electronic structure, while only weakly affecting their spatially averaged, thermodynamic properties. Finally, we show that the microscopic nature of defects can be identified through their characteristic signatures in the hybridization and quasi-particle interference spectrum.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.3638
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