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A solvable 3D Kondo lattice exhibiting odd-frequency pairing and order fractionalization

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2022-10-19 v2 Superconductivity

Abstract

The Kondo lattice model plays a key role in our understanding of quantum materials, but a lack of small parameters has posed a long-standing problem. We present a 3 dimensional S= 1/2 Kondo lattice model describing a spin liquid within an electron sea. Strong correlations in the spin liquid are treated exactly, enabling a controlled analytical approach. Like a Peierls or BCS phase, a logarithmically divergent susceptibility leads to an instability into a new phase at arbitrarily small Kondo coupling. Our solution captures a plethora of emergent phenomena, including odd-frequency pairing, pair density wave formation and order fractionalization. The ground-state state is a pair density wave with a fractionalized charge e, S = 1/2 order parameter, formed between electrons and Majorana fermions.

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@article{arxiv.2203.04104,
  title  = {A solvable 3D Kondo lattice exhibiting odd-frequency pairing and order fractionalization},
  author = {Piers Coleman and Aaditya Panigrahi and Alexei Tsvelik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.04104},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Contains Supplementary Material with calculation of divergent charge e pair susceptibility