Kondo effect in Dirac systems
Abstract
We investigate the Kondo effect in Dirac systems, where Dirac electrons interact with the localized spin via the s-d exchange coupling. The Dirac electron in solid state has the linear dispersion and is described typically by the Hamiltonian such as for the wave number where are Pauli matrices. We derived the formula of the Kondo temperature by means of the Green's function theory for small . The is determined from a singularity of Green's functions in the form when the exchange coupling is small where for a cutoff and is the density of states at the Fermi surface. When , is proportional to : . The Kondo screening will, however, disappear when the Fermi surface shrinks to a point called the Dirac point, that is, vanishes when the chemical potential is just at the Dirac point. The resistivity and the specific heat exhibit a log- singularity in the range . Instead, for or , they never show log-.
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@article{arxiv.1505.05295,
title = {Kondo effect in Dirac systems},
author = {Takashi Yanagisawa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.05295},
year = {2015}
}