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Holographic impurities and Kondo effect

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-11-03 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

Magnetic impurities are responsible for many interesting phenomena in condensed matter systems, notably the Kondo effect and quantum phase transitions. Here we present a holographic model of a magnetic impurity that captures the main physical properties of the large-spin Kondo effect. We estimate the screening length of the Kondo cloud that forms around the impurity from a calculation of entanglement entropy and show that our results are consistent with the g-theorem.

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@article{arxiv.1511.09362,
  title  = {Holographic impurities and Kondo effect},
  author = {J. Erdmenger and M. Flory and C. Hoyos and M-N. Newrzella and A. O'Bannon and J. Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.09362},
  year   = {2016}
}

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17 pages, 9 figures, Proceedings for COST MP1210 (The String Theory Universe) at Leuven

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