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A many-body resonance emerges at the Fermi energy when an electron bath screens the magnetic moment of a half-filled impurity level. This Kondo effect, originally introduced to explain the abnormal resistivity behavior in bulk magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-16 Camiel van Efferen , Jeison Fischer , Theo A. Costi , Achim Rosch , Thomas Michely , Wouter Jolie

We study the spin thermopower in the two-channel spin-1/2 Kondo model which exhibits the phenomenon of impurity spin overscreening and non-Fermi-liquid properties. While magnetic field lower than the Kondo temperature does not strongly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-06 Rok Zitko , Jernej Mravlje , Anton Ramsak , Tomaz Rejec

We study the system of two magnetic impurities described by a two-impurity Kondo model where only the first impurity couples directly to the conduction band, while the second impurity interacts with the first through Heisenberg exchange…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-12-14 Rok Zitko

We study the effects of the exchange interaction between an adsorbed magnetic atom with easy-axis magnetic anisotropy and the conduction-band electrons from the substrate. We model the system using an anisotropic Kondo model and we compute…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-10 Rok Zitko , Thomas Pruschke

We present a generic mechanism that explains why many Kondo materials show magnetic ordering along directions that are not favoured by the crystal-field anisotropy. Using a renormalization-group (RG) analysis of single impurity Kondo models…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-17 M. P. Kwasigroch , Huanzhi Hu , F. Krüger , A. G. Green

Electron scattering off an Anderson impurity immersed in the bulk of a 3D topological insulator is studied in the strong coupling regime, where the temperature $T$ is lower than the Kondo temperature $T_K$. The system displays either a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-04 Igor Kuzmenko , Tetyana Kuzmenko , Yshai Avishai , Tai Kai Ng

We study a new exchange interaction in which the conduction electrons with pseudo spin $S_c=3/2$ interact with the impurity spin $S_I=1/2$. Due to the overscreening of the impurity spin by higher conduction electron spin, a new non-trivial…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Tae-Suk Kim , L. N. Oliveira , D. L. Cox

Dynamical correlations of various local operators are studied in the spin-half two-channel Kondo (2CK) model in the presence of channel anisotropy or external magnetic field. A conformal field theory-based scaling approach is used to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 A. I. Toth , G. Zarand

In the Kondo effect, a localized magnetic moment is screened by forming a correlated electron system with the surrounding conduction electrons of a non-magnetic host. Spin S=1/2 Kondo systems have been investigated extensively in theory and…

We study Kondo physics of a spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ impurity in electronic matter with strong spin-orbit interaction, which can be realized by depositing magnetic adatoms on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator. We show that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-10 L. Isaev , G. Ortiz , I. Vekhter

We study triangular clusters of three spin-1/2 Kondo or Anderson impurities that are coupled to two conduction leads. In the case of Kondo impurities, the model takes the form of an antiferromagnetic Heisenberg ring with Kondo-like exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-06 Rok Zitko Janez Bonca

Magnetic impurity effects in carbon nanotubes are studied theoretically. The multi channel Kondo effect is investigated with the band structure of the metallic nanotubes. The local non-Fermi liquid behavior is realized at temperatures lower…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Harigaya

We investigate a single magnetic impurity in the presence of strong spin-orbit coupling and single-ion anisotropy. We show that at sufficiently strong coupling there exists a finite temperature window, before the moment is completely…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-30 Krzysztof P. Wójcik , Michał P. Kwasigroch

We investigate the Kondo effect of a spin-3/2 Fermi gas and give a detailed calculation of the impurity resistance and ground state energy based on the s-d exchange model. It is found that the impurity resistance increases logarithmically…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-16 Bei Xu , Shoufa Sun , Qiang Gu

We study the low-temperature properties of a spin-\onehalf\ magnetic impurity coupled to a one-dimensional interacting electron system. Using the newly developed formalism by Affleck and Ludwig, with a scale invariant boundary condition…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Per Frojdh , Henrik Johannesson

We study the fate of a spin-1/2 impurity in the itinerant antiferromagnetic metallic phase via a renormalization group analysis and a variational calculation. The local moment - conduction electron interaction hamiltonian in an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-06-05 Vivek Aji , Chandra Varma , Ilya Vekhter

Motivated by recent advances in the study of altermagnetism, or unconventional magnetism, and in the realization and manipulation of two-impurity Kondo physics in real materials, we propose a phase-sensitive method to explore unconventional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-13 Qiong Qin , Toshihiro Sato , Marcin Raczkowski , Jeroen van den Brink , Congjun Wu , Fakher F. Assaad

We consider a single magnetic impurity described by the spin--anisotropic s-d(f) exchange (Kondo) model and formulate scaling equation for the spin-anisotropic model when the density of states (DOS) of electrons is a power law function of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Eugene Kogan , Kazuto Noda , Seiji Yunoki

We study the response of a two-channel Kondo quantum dot device proposed by Y. Oreg and D. Goldhaber-Gordon [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 90}, 136602 (2003)] to a spin-bias applied across one of its channels formed by Fermi liquid reservoirs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Prashant Sharma

We present a self-consistent theory of superconductors in the presence of Kondo impurities, using large-$N$ slave-boson methods to treat the impurity dynamics. The technique is tested on the s-wave case and shown to give good results…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 L. S. Borkowski , P. J. Hirschfeld