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Exact Thermodynamics of Disordered Impurities in Quantum Spin Chains

Condensed Matter 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

Exact results for the thermodynamic properties of ensembles of magnetic impurities with randomly distributed host-impurity couplings in the quantum antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model are presented. Exact calculations are done for arbitrary values of temperature and external magnetic field. We have shown that for strong disorder the quenching of the impurity moments is absent. For weak disorder the screening persists, but with the critical non-Fermi-liquid behaviors of the magnetic susceptibility and specific heat. A comparison with the disordered Kondo effect experiments in dirty metallic alloys is performed.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9811115,
  title  = {Exact Thermodynamics of Disordered Impurities in Quantum Spin Chains},
  author = {A. Klümper and A. A. Zvyagin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9811115},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages Latex