Abstract
A theory of hydrodynamic fluctuations in heavy fermion systems is presented. It is used to compute the attenuation and velocity of longitudinal ultrasound. The attenuation is dominated by the coupling of phonons to electronic density fluctuations. A discrepancy is resolved between theory and experiments on UPt3, which has been existing with respect to the absolute magnitude of the temperature dependent attenuation. The latter provides direct proof for a large Fermi liquid parameterF 0 . The phonon Green's function is found to have a four-pole structure, resulting in two diffusive modes. One is the conventional one due to heat diffusion while the other is due to electron density diffusion and is a characteristic feature of heavy fermion systems. The two modes are coupled at finite temperatures. With the help of a model Hamiltonian (slave boson mean-field formulation of the Anderson lattice Hamiltonian) the ultrasound attenuation is calculated for low temperatures.
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