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In the strong coupling limit, an effective resonant level model is derived for the spin-1 underscreened Kondo impurity model. A local quantum critical behavior is induced by the formation of a bound state with partially screened magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Guang-Ming Zhang , Lu Yu

Using the Schwinger boson spin representation, we reveal a new aspect to the physics of a partially screened magnetic moment in a metal, as described by the spin $S$ Kondo model. We show that the residual ferromagnetic interaction between a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Coleman , C. Pepin

We theoretically study the Kondo screening of a spin-1/2 magnetic impurity in the bulk of a type-II Weyl semimetal (WSM) by use of the variational wave function method. We consider a type-II WSM model with two Weyl nodes located on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-06 Lu-Ji Wang , Xing-Tai Hu , Lin Li , Dong-Hui Xu , Jin-Hua Sun , Wei-Qiang Chen

The effective interaction between magnetic impurities in metals that can lead to various magnetic ground states often competes with a tendency for electrons near impurities to screen the local moment (Kondo effect). The simplest system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. J. Craig , J. M. Taylor , E. A. Lester , C. M. Marcus , M. P. Hanson , A. C. Gossard

The effects of carrier-impurity correlations due to a Kondo-like spin-spin interaction in diluted magnetic semiconductors are investigated. These correlations are not only responsible for a transfer of spins between the carriers and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Moritz Cygorek , Pablo Ignacio Tamborenea , Vollrath Martin Axt

The Kondo cloud, represented by the correlations between the magnetic moment and the spin density in the leads of a Kondo setup, is until now eluding its observation. We exploit the unique coupling of spin and direction of motion of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-18 Thore Posske , Björn Trauzettel

We analyze the equilibrium transport properties of underscreened Kondo effect in the case of a two-level quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic leads. Using the numerical renormalization group (NRG) method, we have determined the gate voltage…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ireneusz Weymann , Laszlo Borda

We analyze the spatial correlations in the spin density of an electron gas in the vicinity of a Kondo impurity. Our analysis extends to the spin-anisotropic regime, which was not investigated in the literature. We use an original and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-09 Serge Florens , Izak Snyman

We study a magnetic impurity immersed in the two-dimensional antiferromagnetic quantum critical metal (AFQCM), using the field-theoretic functional renormalization group. Critical spin fluctuations represented by a bosonic field compete…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-19 Francisco Borges , Peter Lunts , Sung-Sik Lee

We investigate the effect that Rashba spin-orbit coupling has on the low energy behaviour of a two dimensional magnetic impurity system. It is shown that the Kondo effect, the screening of the magnetic impurity at temperatures T < T_K, is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-11-01 Justin Malecki

We consider a model describing a system where the superconductivity competes with the overscreened Kondo effect. The model consists of a single spin$-\frac{1}{2}$ quantum impurity at the edge of a quantum wire where spin$-1$ bulk fermions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-21 Pradip Kattel , Abay Zhakenov , Natan Andrei

We investigate magnetic properties induced by a spinless impurity in strongly correlated electron systems, i.e. the Hubbard model in the spatial dimension $D=1,2,$ and 3. For the 1D system exploiting the Bethe ansatz exact solution we find…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Satoshi Fujimoto

The Kondo effect arises from many-body interactions between localized magnetic impurities and conduction electrons, affecting electronic properties at low temperatures. In this study, we investigate the Kondo effect within a two-dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-30 T. O. Puel , M. A. Manya , G. S. Diniz , E. Vernek , G. B. Martins

We develop a microscopic theory of the single impurity Kondo effect on a metallic surface. We calculate the hybridization energies for the Anderson Hamiltonian of a magnetic impurity interacting with surface and bulk states and show that,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Chiung-Yuan Lin , A. H. Castro Neto , B. A. Jones

When a local impurity spin interacts with conduction electrons whose density of states (DOS) has a (pseudo)gap or diverges at the Fermi energy, a local moment (LM) phase can be favored over a Kondo phase. Theoretically studying quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-07 Minsoo L. Kim , Jeongmin Shim , H. -S. Sim , Donghoon Kim

The relation between the Kondo spin relaxation rate $ {\tau_{sK}}^{-1} $ and the Kondo momentum relaxation rate $ {\tau_{eK}}^{-1} $ is explored by using nonlocal spin valves with submicron copper channels that contain dilute iron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Xingyu Shen , Yi Ji

The multichannel Kondo model supports effective anyons on the partially screened impurity, as suggested by its fractional impurity entropy. It was recently demonstrated for the multi-impurity chiral Kondo model, that scattering of an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-26 Dor Gabay , Cheolhee Han , Pedro L. S. Lopes , Ian Affleck , Eran Sela

We investigate the boundary effects that arise when spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ impurities interact with the edges of the antiferromagnetic spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ Heisenberg chain through spin exchange interactions. We consider both cases when the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-17 Pradip Kattel , Parameshwar R. Pasnoori , J. H. Pixley , Patrick Azaria , Natan Andrei

The Kondo effect emerges when a localized spin is screened by conduction electrons, giving rise to a strongly-correlated many-body ground state. In this work, we investigate this phenomenon in a GaAs/AlGaAs quantum dot, focusing on the…

We study the nonequilibrium formation of a spin screening cloud that accompanies the quenching of a local magnetic moment immersed in a Fermi sea at zero temperature. Based on high precision density matrix renormalization group results for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-04 Martin Nuss , Martin Ganahl , Enrico Arrigoni , Wolfgang von der Linden , Hans Gerd Evertz