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Comment on "Scaling feature of magnetic field induced Kondo-peak splittings"

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2011-05-25 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

In a recent work Zhang and coworkers (PRB 82, 075111 (2010)) studied the Zeeman splitting of the Kondo resonance for the single impurity Anderson model in a finite magnetic field BB with the numerical renormalization group (NRG) method. There, it was found that with increasing magnetic field BB the position of the Kondo resonance in the total spectral function \textit{does not} approach its position in the spin resolved spectral function. Additionally, the position of the Kondo maximum exceeded the Zeeman energy for B/TK510B/ T_K\gtrsim 5-10, where TKT_K is the low energy Kondo scale of the model (g=2g=2, μB=kB==1\mu_B=k_B=\hbar=1). In this comment we argue that both these findings are produced by an improper choice of NRG parameter values. However, we reproduce the crossover in the splitting from Kondo-like behavior to a non-universal splitting larger than the Zeeman energy, but this crossover occurs at much larger fields of the order of the charge scale.

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@article{arxiv.1102.2187,
  title  = {Comment on "Scaling feature of magnetic field induced Kondo-peak splittings"},
  author = {Sebastian Schmitt and Frithjof B. Anders},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.2187},
  year   = {2011}
}

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Minor revisions; same version as published