Magnetic and orbital fluctuations in filled skutterudites

In order to clarify what types of spin and orbital fluctuations dominate over low-temperature electronic properties of Pr-based filled skutterudites, we evaluate multipole susceptibility based on a multiorbital Anderson model constructed from a j-j coupling scheme. It is found that magnetic and quadrupole fluctuations are dominant at low temperatures. When we further include the effect of rattling as dynamical Jahn-Teller phonons, there remain quadrupole and octupole fluctuations, which may induce exotic superconducting pairing. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.