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Stability of insulating phase in the chiral Kondo lattice model

Condensed Matter 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

In this work, the stability of the insulating phase of the 1D chiral Kondo lattice model is studied at half-filling, within the framework of self-consistent variational theory. It is found that arbitrarily small interaction would drive the system from a conducting phase to an insulating phase, in spite of the chirality of the conducting band.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9504080,
  title  = {Stability of insulating phase in the chiral Kondo lattice model},
  author = {D. F. Wang and C. Gruber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9504080},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages, IPT-EPFL preprint, submitted to PRB as a brief report for publication