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Spectral function of the Kondo model in high magnetic fields

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2009-11-10 v3 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

Using a recently developed perturbative renormalization group (RG) scheme, we calculate analytically the spectral function of a Kondo impurity for either large frequencies w or large magnetic field B and arbitrary frequencies. For large w >> max[B,T_K] the spectral function decays as 1/ln^2[ w/T_K ] with prefactors which depend on the magnetization. The spin-resolved spectral function displays a pronounced peak at w=B with a characteristic asymmetry. In a detailed comparison with results from numerical renormalization group (NRG) and bare perturbation theory in next-to-leading logarithmic order, we show that our perturbative RG scheme is controlled by the small parameter 1/ln[ max(w,B)/T_K]. Furthermore, we assess the ability of the NRG to resolve structures at finite frequencies.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0301106,
  title  = {Spectral function of the Kondo model in high magnetic fields},
  author = {A. Rosch and T. A. Costi and J. Paaske and P. Wölfle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0301106},
  year   = {2009}
}

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8 pages, version published in PRB, minor changes