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We study the entanglement of an impurity at one end of a spin chain with a block of spins using negativity as a true measure of entanglement to characterize the unique features of the gapless Kondo regime in the spin chain Kondo model. For…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Abolfazl Bayat , Pasquale Sodano , Sougato Bose

A magnetic moment in a metal or in a quantum dot is, at low temperatures, screened by the conduction electrons through the mechanism of the Kondo effect. This gives rise to spin-spin correlations between the magnetic moment and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-24 Andreas Holzner , Ian P. McCulloch , Ulrich Schollwöck , Jan von Delft , Fabian Heidrich-Meisner

A theoretical concept is presented for the screening of several magnetic moments locally exchange coupled to conduction electrons in a metallic nanostructure. We consider a quantum confined multi-impurity Kondo model which exhibits the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-06 Andrej Schwabe , Mirek Hänsel , Michael Potthoff , Andrew K. Mitchell

We study the Kondo model --a magnetic impurity coupled to a one dimensional wire via exchange coupling-- by using Wilson's numerical renormalization group (NRG) technique. By applying an approach similar to which was used to compute the two…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Laszlo Borda

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

Quantum entanglement between an impurity spin and electrons nearby is a key property of the single-channel Kondo effects. We show that the entanglement can be detected by measuring electron conductance through a double quantum dot in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Gwangsu Yoo , Seung-Sup B. Lee , H. -S. Sim

Many-body correlations and macroscopic quantum behaviors are fascinating condensed matter problems. A powerful test-bed for the many-body concepts and methods is the Kondo model which entails the coupling of a quantum impurity to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-08 Z. Iftikhar , S. Jezouin , A. Anthore , U. Gennser , F. D. Parmentier , A. Cavanna , F. Pierre

We derive the topological Kondo Hamiltonian describing a Y junction of three XX-spin chains connected to outer quantum Ising chains with different tilting angles for the Ising axis. We show that the tilting angles in the spin models play…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-01 Domenico Giuliano , Andrea Nava , Pasquale Sodano

We utilize the variational method to study the Kondo screening of a spin-$1/2$ magnetic impurity in a three-dimensional (3D) Weyl semimetal with two Weyl nodes along the $k_z$-axis. The model reduces to a 3D Dirac semimetal when the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-18 Jin-Hua Sun , Dong-Hui Xu , Fu-Chun Zhang , Yi Zhou

We propose that real-space properties of the two-impurity Kondo model can be obtained from an effective spin model where two single-impurity Kondo spin chains are joined via an RKKY interaction between the two impurity spins. We then use a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-10 Abolfazl Bayat , Sougato Bose , Pasquale Sodano , Henrik Johannesson

We consider a magnetic s=1/2 impurity in the antiferromagnetic spin chain as a function of two coupling parameters: the symmetric coupling of the impurity to two sites in the chain $J_1$ and the coupling between the two sites $J_2$. By…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Sebastian Eggert , David P. Gustafsson , Stefan Rommer

We investigate the entanglement properties of the Kondo spin chain when it is prepared in its ground state as well as its dynamics following a single bond quench. We show that a true measure of entanglement such as negativity enables to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-09 Abolfazl Bayat , Pasquale Sodano , Sougato Bose

Two electronic channels competing to screen a single impurity spin, as in the two-channel Kondo model, are expected to generate a ground state with nontrivial entanglement structure. We exploit a spin-chain representation of the two-channel…

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 a spin S=M/2--Kondo system coupled to electrons in an arbitrary nonequilibrium situation above Kondo temperature. Coupling to hot electrons leads to an increased inverse lifetime of pseudo particles, related to the Korringa width.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Georg Goeppert , Hermann Grabert

We consider a 2-impurity Kondo system with spin-exchange coupling within the conduction band. Our numerical renormalization group calculations show that for strong intraband spin correlations the competition of these correlations with Kondo…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-04 Krzysztof P. Wójcik , Johann Kroha

The free electron Kondo problem can be described by a one-dimensional (1D) model because only the s-wave part of the electronic wave-function is affected by the Kondo coupling. Since only the spin degrees of freedom are involved in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-03-05 Nicolas Laflorencie , Erik S. Sørensen , Ian Affleck

Paramagnetic impurities in a quantum spin-liquid can result in Kondo effects with highly unusual properties. We have studied the effect of locally exchange-coupling a paramagnetic impurity with the spin-1/2 honeycomb Kitaev model in its…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-26 S. D. Das , K. Dhochak , V. Tripathi

Using the natural orbitals renormalization group, we studied the problem of a localized spin- 1/2 impurity coupled to two helical liquids via the Kondo interaction in a quantum spin Hall insulator, based on the Kane-Mele model defined in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-28 Ru Zheng , Rong-Qiang He , Zhong-Yi Lu

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