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Is there an exponentially large Kondo screening cloud ?

Condensed Matter 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We make a precise scaling conjecture, based on renormalization group ideas, regarding the screening cloud around an impurity spin in the Kondo effect and test it numerically using the Density Matrix Renormalization Group method.

Cite

@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9508030,
  title  = {Is there an exponentially large Kondo screening cloud ?},
  author = {Erik Sorensen and Ian Affleck},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9508030},
  year   = {2007}
}

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RevTeX 3.0, 13 pages including 3 EPS figures using epsf macros