Abstract
Recent experimental work on La 1- x Pr x Sn 3 alloys shows anomalous low-temperature properties which have been tentatively ascribed to Kondo and crystalline-electric-field effects. In order to examine in this paper the soundness of this hypothesis we calculate the magnetic susceptibility of La 1- x Pr x Sn 3 compounds, taking consistently into account crystal-field and Kondo effects. Our theoretical results are in good agreement with the experimental data, giving strong support to the interpretation of La 1- x Pr x Sn 3 as the first-observed singlet ground-state system in which the Kondo effect arises from excited crystal-field levels.
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