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Kondo impurity on the honeycomb lattice at half-filling

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2011-08-25 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We consider a Kondo-like impurity interacting with fermions on a honeycomb lattice at half-filling, as in the case of graphene. We derive from the lattice model an effective one-dimensional continuum theory which has, in general, four flavors with angular momentum mixing in the presence of internode scattering processes and six couplings in the spin-isotropic case. Under particular conditions, however, it can be reduced to a single-coupling multichannel pseudogap Kondo model. We finally calculate, in the presence of an energy dependent Fermi velocity, induced by Coulomb interaction, the critical coupling in the large-N expansion, the magnetic susceptibility and the specific heat.

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@article{arxiv.0911.1255,
  title  = {Kondo impurity on the honeycomb lattice at half-filling},
  author = {Luca Dell'Anna},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.1255},
  year   = {2011}
}

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18 pages, no figures