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Spin Gap in a Doped Kondo Chain

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2009-10-30 v3 Superconductivity

Abstract

We show that the Kondo chain away from half-filling has a spin gap upon the introduction of an additional direct Heisenberg coupling between localized spins. This is understood in the weak-Kondo-coupling limit of the Heisenberg-Kondo lattice model by bosonization and in the strong-coupling limit by a mapping to a modified t-J model. Only for certain ranges of filling and Heisenberg coupling does the spin gap phase extend from weak to strong coupling.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9702143,
  title  = {Spin Gap in a Doped Kondo Chain},
  author = {Arnold E. Sikkema and Ian Affleck and Steven R. White},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9702143},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages RevTeX including 4 eps figures; minor corrections and clarifications

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