LiV2O4, a frustrated mixed valent metal (d^1 d^2), is argued to undergo
two spin-screening processes. The first quenches the effective spin to produce
the spin 1/2 behavior seen below room temperature[1], while the second produces
the heavy fermi liquid character seen at low temperatures[2]. We present here a
preliminary discussion of a t-J model with strong Hund's coupling of the
strongly correlated d-electrons. Valence fluctuations of the Hubbard operators
(S = {1/2} 1) combined with the frustration of the underlying corner-shared
tetrahedral vanadium lattice are the essential components of our model.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure, accepted for proceedings of SCES'2001 Physica B,
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