Itinerant-Localized Transitions in Magnetic Phases of the Periodic Anderson Model

To clarify the characteristics of Fermi-surface reconstruction, called Lifshitz transitions, in magnetic phases of f-electron materials, we investigate magnetically ordered states of the periodic Anderson model by applying the variational Monte Carlo method. As variational wavefunctions, we use the Gutzwiller wavefunctions for the paramagnetic, antiferromagnetic, and ferromagnetic states. Around half-filling, we find an antiferromagnetic phase, and far away from half-filling, we find a ferromagnetic phase as the ground state. Inside both magnetic phases, Lifshitz transitions take place. At the Lifshitz transitions, the sizes of the ordered moments change. In order to understand the Lifshitz transitions further, we also analyze the f -electron contribution to the Fermi surface by evaluating the jump in the momentum distribution function at the Fermi momentum. Then, we find that, in the large ordered-moment states, the f -electron contribution to the Fermi surface becomes small. This observation clearly shows that these Lifshitz transitions are itinerant-localized transitions of the f electrons.