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Critical hybridization for the Kondo resonance in gapless systems

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2009-10-20 v1

Abstract

We study the Kondo resonance in a spin-1/2 single impurity Anderson model with a gapless conduction band using the equation of motion approach in order to obtain the impurity spectral function. We study two different scenarios for gapless systems: a purely power-law energy dependence of the density of states or a constant density of states with a gapless behavior near the Fermi level. We demonstrate that strong electron-electron correlations lead to a sharp peak in the impurity spectral function in the case of a large exchange coupling (J>JcJ>J_{c}) or equivalently, a strong hybridization (V>VcV>V_{c}). This Kondo-like peak emerges much below the Fermi level in the case of a strongly depleted density of states. These results are compared with the ones from renormalization group approaches.

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@article{arxiv.0910.3557,
  title  = {Critical hybridization for the Kondo resonance in gapless systems},
  author = {R. G. Dias and Lidia del Rio and A. V. Goltsev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.3557},
  year   = {2009}
}

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7 pages, 7 figures