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Orbital Kondo effect in fractional quantum Hall systems

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2015-08-06 v1

Abstract

We study transport properties of a charge qubit coupling two chiral Luttinger liquids, realized by two antidots placed between the edges of an integer ν=1\nu=1 or fractional ν=1/3\nu=1/3 quantum Hall bar. We show that in the limit of a large capacitive coupling between the antidots, their quasiparticle occupancy behaves as a pseudo-spin corresponding to an orbital Kondo impurity coupled to a chiral Luttinger liquid, while the inter antidot tunnelling acts as an impurity magnetic field. The latter tends to destabilize the Kondo fixed point for the ν=1/3\nu=1/3 fractional Hall state, producing an effective inter-edge tunnelling. We relate the inter-edge conductance to the susceptibility of the Kondo impurity and calculate it analytically in various limits for both ν=1\nu=1 and ν=1/3\nu=1/3.

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@article{arxiv.1502.07430,
  title  = {Orbital Kondo effect in fractional quantum Hall systems},
  author = {Yashar Komijani and Pascal Simon and Ian Affleck},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.07430},
  year   = {2015}
}
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