Calor específico de um modelo teórico para o composto URu2Si2

Abstract

The Heavy fermion URu2Si2 compound have attracted much interest in the last decades due to its unusual behaviors and still an unsolved problem in Condensed Matter Physics. Specific heat measurements in URu2Si2 compounds show that when the temperature is decreased the system undergoes a phase transition at 17,5K and another phase transition at 1,5K. The phase transition at 1,5K leads the system to a superconducting state. On the other hand, the phase transition at 17,5K leads the system to a unclear order known as Hidden Order. In the last three decades, URu2Si2 the system has been intensively experimental and theoretical investigated, nevertheless, the nature of the hidden order is still unclear. In presence of an external magnetic field Hz, the URu2Si2 system presents a interesting behavior. In particular, there are experimental results for the specific heat showing that above 25T, the specific heat anomaly becomes very sharp and narrow and loses its second-order character.Recentily proposed a theory based in the underscreened Anderson Lattice Model. Such theory has been also used to study a minimal model proposed to describe the hidden order in the URu2Si2 system. In the present work, the effects of an external magnetic field Hz on the specific heat of a minimal model are investigated. The specific heat has been calculated from the second-derivative of the Helmholtz Free-energy with respect to the temperature. For magnetic fields below approximately 28T, the present results show a second order character for the specific heat. However, for magnetic fields above 28T, the specific heat becomes very sharp and narrow indicating that the system reached a region of first-order transition. It is also important to note that these results are, at least, in qualitatively agreement with experimental results.