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We consider a magnetic impurity which interacts by hybridization with a system of weakly correlated electrons and determine the energy of the ground state by means of an 1/N_f expansion. The correlations among the conduction electrons are…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Tom Schork

Impurity moments coupled to fermions with a pseudogap density of states display a quantum phase transition between a screened and a free moment phase upon variation of the Kondo coupling. We describe the universal theory of this transition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthias Vojta , Lars Fritz

Quantum states induced by single-atomic-impurities are the current frontier of material and information science. Recently the spin-orbit coupled correlated kagome magnets are emerging as a new class of topological quantum materials,…

In this work we study the Kondo impurity problem - at a finite concentration of impurities. We identify two parameter regimes for the Kondo impurity problem. 1) The single impurity limit, where the concentration of Kondo impurities is so…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-29 Garry Goldstein

A scenario for the formation of symmetry protected non-Fermi-liquid (NFL) Kondo effect (KE) with spin variable enumerating Kondo channels is suggested and worked out. In doubly occupied symmetric triple quantum dot within parallel geometry,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-11 T. Kuzmenko , K. Kikoin , Y. Avishai

Using NRG, we show that a system containing a quantum impurity (QI), strongly coupled to a semiconductor (gap $2 \Delta$) and weakly coupled to a metal, displays a 'reentrant' Kondo stage at low temperatures. The NRG analysis of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-25 G. Diniz , G. S. Diniz , G. B. Martins , E. Vernek

A unified perspective is given on a number of different problems involving the coupling of a localized quantum spin degree of freedom to the low energy excitations of an antiferromagnet, a spin glass, or a Kondo insulator. The problems are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Subir Sachdev

We study odd-membered chains of spin-(1/2) impurities, with each end connected to its own metallic lead. For antiferromagnetic exchange coupling, universal two-channel Kondo (2CK) physics is shown to arise at low energies. Two overscreening…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-09-21 Andrew K. Mitchell , David E. Logan , H. R. Krishnamurthy

We study the electronic and magnetic structures of the newly-discovered compound KCr$_3$As$_3$. The non-magnetic state has five Fermi surface sheets involving respectively three quasi-one-dimensional and two three-dimensional energy bands.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-01-20 Chao Cao , Hao Jiang , Xiao-Yong Feng , Jianhui Dai

We discuss a device --- a purely capacitively coupled interacting spinless triple quantum dot system --- for the observation of the SU(3) Kondo effect. Unlike more familiar SU(2) and SU(4) Kondo effects in quantum dot devices which lead to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-11 Rosa Lopez , Tomaz Rejec , Jan Martinek , Rok Zitko

Dynamical quantum impurities in metals induce electronic correlations in real space that are difficult to simulate due to their multi-scale nature, so that only s-wave scattering in clean metallic hosts has been investigated so far.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-05 Maxime Debertolis , Izak Snyman , Serge Florens

The competition between the Kondo screening and indirect magnetic exchange in systems with two magnetic impurities coupled to a conventional s-wave superconductor gives rise to a nontrivial ground-state phase diagram. Here, we utilize the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-13 Cassian Plorin , Michael Potthoff

Magnetic impurity effects on metallic carbon nanotubes are studied theoretically. The resolvent method for the multi channel Kondo effect is applied to the band structure of the kp perturbation hamiltonian in the limit of the infinite…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 Kikuo Harigaya

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

A spin-1/2 magnetic impurity coupled to a one-dimensional correlated electron system have been studied by applying the density renormalization group method. The Kondo temperature is substantially enhanced by strong repulsive interactions in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-30 Xiaoqun Wang

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 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

Magnetic frustration has been recognized as pivotal to investigating new phases of matter in correlation-driven Kondo breakdown quantum phase transitions that are not clearly associated with broken symmetry. The nature of these new phases,…

Nanoscale physics and dynamical mean field theory have both generated increased interest in complex quantum impurity problems and so have focused attention on the need for flexible quantum impurity solvers. Here we demonstrate that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jaebeom Yoo , Shailesh Chandrasekharan , Ribhu K. Kaul , Denis Ullmo , Harold U. Baranger

We study a pseudogap Anderson-Holstein model of a magnetic impurity level that hybridizes with a conduction band whose density of states vanishes in power-law fashion at the Fermi energy, and couples, via its charge, to a nondispersive…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-27 Mengxing Cheng , Kevin Ingersent