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The underscreened Kondo effect is studied within a model of two impurities S=1 interacting with the conduction band and via an interimpurity coupling $K\vec{S_1}.\vec{S_2}$. Using a mean-field treatment of the bosonized Hamiltonian, we show…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-30 Karyn Le Hur , B. Coqblin

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 investigate the ground and excited states of interacting electrons in a quantum point contact using exact diagonalization method. We find that strongly localized states in the point contact appear when a new conductance channel opens due…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Taegeun Song , Kang-Hun Ahn

We discuss Kondo phenomena in a seven-orbital impurity Anderson model hybridized with $\Gamma_8$ conduction electrons by employing a numerical renormalization group method. In particular, we focus on the case with three local $f$ electrons,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-13 Takashi Hotta

The quest for quantum ground states beyond the conventional Fermi-liquid paradigm remains a central challenge in many-body physics. The ferromagnetic Kondo effect represents a particularly intriguing case: an exotic variant of the Kondo…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Elia Turco , Nils Krane , Hongyan Chen , Simon Gerber , Wulf Wulfhekel , Roman Fasel , Pascal Ruffieux , David Jacob

We investigate the boundary phenomena that arise in a finite-size $XX$ spin chain interacting through an $XX$ interaction with a spin$-\frac{1}{2}$ impurity located at its edge. Upon Jordan-Wigner transformation, the model is described by a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-17 Pradip Kattel , Yicheng Tang , J. H. Pixley , Natan Andrei

In normal metals, the magnetic-moment of impurity-spins disappears below a characteristic Kondo temperature, TK. This marks the formation of a polarized cloud of conduction band electrons that screen the magnetic moment . In contrast,…

We consider magnetic impurities coupled to a conduction sea via a fully isotropic ferromagnetic spin-exchange term, the strength of which depends on the conduction-electron modes involved in the scattering. In the single-impurity case we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-25 Ewan Scott , Yaqi Chen , Michael Turaev , Tarkan Yzeiri , Chris Hooley , Krzysztof P. Wójcik , Michał P. Kwasigroch

Magnetic impurities are responsible for many interesting phenomena in condensed matter systems, notably the Kondo effect and quantum phase transitions. Here we present a holographic model of a magnetic impurity that captures the main…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-03 J. Erdmenger , M. Flory , C. Hoyos , M-N. Newrzella , A. O'Bannon , J. Wu

We investigate the Kondo effect in two-dimensional disordered electron systems using a finite-temperature quantum Monte Carlo method. Depending on the position of a magnetic impurity, the local moment is screened or unscreened by the spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Takuma Ohashi , Sei-ichiro Suga

We study the physics of dilute magnetic impurities in a two-dimensional altermagnetic metal. For the single impurity case, although the spin degeneracy is broken in an altermagnetic metal, we show that the antiferromagnetic Kondo coupling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-10 Yu-Li Lee

We study the influence of a magnetic impurity or ultrasmall quantum dot on the charge persistent current of a mesoscopic ring. The system consists of electrons in a one-dimensional ring threaded by spin-dependent Aharonov-Bohm/Casher…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. -P. Eckle , H. Johannesson , C. A. Stafford

We present a theory of Kondo effect caused by an induced magnetic moment near non-magnetic impurities such as Zn and Li in the cuprate superconductors. Based on the co-existence of charge order and superconductivity, a natural description…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Kwon Park

We consider the spatial spin correlations around a partially screened spin-1 magnetic moment in a metal exhibiting the underscreened Kondo effect. We find that the underscreening of the impurity spin results in spatial spin correlations…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-04-03 L. Borda , M. Garst , J. Kroha

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

We investigate the many-body effects of a magnetic adatom in ferromagnetic graphene by using the numerical renormalization group method. The nontrivial band dispersion of ferromagnetic graphene gives rise to interesting Kondo physics…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-25 Gao-Yang Li , Tie-Feng Fang , Ai-Min Guo , Qing-Feng Sun

Metallic magnetism is both ancient and modern, occurring in such familiar settings as the lodestone in compass needles and the hard drive in computers. Surprisingly, a rigorous theoretical basis for metallic ferromagnetism is still largely…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-11-05 Seiji J. Yamamoto , Qimiao Si

Asymmetry in the Josephson couplings between two superconductors through a quantum dot is studied based on a single impurity Anderson model using the numerical renormalization group (NRG). Specifically, we examine how the difference between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yoshihide Tanaka , Akira Oguri , A. C. Hewson

We study the real-time dynamics of the Kondo effect after a quantum quench in which a magnetic impurity is coupled to two metallic Hubbard chains. Using an effective field theory approach, we find that for noninteracting electrons the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-08 Moallison F. Cavalcante , Rodrigo G. Pereira , Maria C. O. Aguiar

By nonperturbatively solving the nonequilibrium Anderson two-impurity model with the hierarchical equations of motion approach, we report a robust ferromagnetic (FM) phase in series-coupled double quantum dots, which can suppress the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-05 WenJie Hou , YuanDong Wang , JianHua Wei , YiJing Yan