title: Ferromagnetism and Kondo insulator behavior in the disordered periodic Anderson model.
abstract: The effect of binary alloy disorder on the ferromagnetic phases of f-electron materials is studied within the periodic Anderson model. We find that disorder in the conduction band can drastically enhance the Curie temperature T{c} due to an increase of the local f moment. The effect may be explained qualitatively and even quantitatively by a simple theoretical ansatz. The emergence of an alloy Kondo insulator at noninteger filling is also pointed out.
authors.affiliation: Theoretical Physics III, Center for Electronic Correlations and Magnetism, Institute of Physics, University of Augsburg, D-86135 Augsburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Unjong
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Krzysztof
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Byczuk
authors.forename: Dieter
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Vollhardt