Full varieties of strongly correlated electron phenomena have been found in the filled skutterudite systems, by changing the constituent elements. The unique crystal structure leads to novel features even in the systems containing rare earth elements with plural number of 4f -electrons. According to the intensive competitions and cooperation among experimental and theoretical research works, remarkable progress has been made in sorting out several basic origins that bring about the variety of this system, such as the strong c-f hybridization, the small CEF level splitting, the orbital degree of freedom (multipoles), and the positional degree of freedom within a pnictogen cage. However, there still remain many attractive questions to be answered.
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