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We propose a scheme to realize the Kondo model with tunable anisotropy using alkaline-earth atoms in an optical lattice. The new feature of our setup is Floquet engineering of interactions using time-dependent Zeeman shifts, that can be…

Quantum entanglement between an impurity and its environment is expected to be central in quantum impurity problems. We develop a method to compute the entanglement in spin-1/2 impurity problems, based on the entanglement negativity and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-06 Donghoon Kim , Jeongmin Shim , H. -S. Sim

We investigate the influence of spin-orbit coupling on the Kondo effects in carbon nanotube quantum dots, using the numerical renormalization group technique. A sufficiently large spin-orbit coupling is shown to destroy the SU(4) Kondo…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-03-11 Martin R. Galpin , Frederic W. Jayatilaka , David E. Logan , Frithjof B. Anders

Entanglement in J_1-J_2, S=1/2 quantum spin chains with an impurity is studied using analytic methods as well as large scale numerical density matrix renormalization group methods. The entanglement is investigated in terms of the von…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-11-09 Erik S. Sørensen , Ming-Shyang Chang , Nicolas Laflorencie , Ian Affleck

We observe a strong Kondo effect in a semiconductor quantum dot when a small magnetic field is applied. The Coulomb blockade for electron tunneling is overcome completely by the Kondo effect and the conductance reaches the unitary-limit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 W. G. van der Wiel , S. De Franceschi , T. Fujisawa , J. M. Elzerman , S. Tarucha , L. P. Kouwenhoven

Quantitative analysis of quantum many-body systems, consisting of numerous itinerant electrons that interact with localized spins or electrons, is a long-standing issue. The Kondo cloud, a quantum many-body object of conduction electrons…

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 explore the physics of a spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain with Kondo interaction, $J_k$, to a two-dimensional electron gas. At weak $J_k$ the problem maps onto a Heisenberg chain locally coupled to a dissipative Ohmic bath. At the decoupled…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-24 Bimla Danu , Matthias Vojta , Tarun Grover , Fakher F. Assaad

We consider an open quantum system in contact with fermionic metallic reservoirs in a nonequilibrium setup. For the case of spin, orbital or potential fluctuations, we present a systematic formulation of real-time renormalization group at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-19 Frank Reininghaus , Mikhail Pletyukhov , Herbert Schoeller

We study the thermodynamics of one-dimensional quantum spin-1/2 Heisenberg ferromagnetic system with random antiferromagnetic impurity bonds. In the dilute impurity limit, we generalize the modified spin-wave theory for random spin chains,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Xin Wan , Kun Yang , R. N. Bhatt

We propose that two-channel orbital Kondo ``spin'' 1/2 conductance can be measured in a quantum dot at Coulomb Blockade with an odd number of electrons with contacts in a pillar configuration, if an orthogonal magnetic field induces an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Domenico Giuliano , Benoit Jouault , Arturo Tagliacozzo

We discuss models of interacting magnetic impurities coupled to a metallic host. If twice the sum of the impurity spins is larger than the total number of host screening channels, the system shows one or more quantum phase transitions where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Matthias Vojta , Ralf Bulla , Walter Hofstetter

Tunneling conductance through two quantum dots, which are connected in series to left and right leads, is calculated by using the numerical renormalization group method. As the hopping between the dots increases from very small value, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Wataru Izumida , Osamu Sakai

The traditional multichannel Kondo effect takes place when several gapless metallic electronic channels interact with a localized spin-$S$ impurity, with the number of channels $n$ exceeding the size of the impurity spin, $n>2S$, leading to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-16 Pradip Kattel , Abay Zhakenov , Natan Andrei

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

The zero-temperature magnetic field-dependent conductance of electrons through a one-dimensional non-interacting tight-binding chain with an interacting {\it side} dot is reviewed and analized further. When the number of electrons in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 M. E. Torio , K. Hallberg , C. Proetto

The random antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 XX and XXZ chain is studied numerically for varying strength of the disorder, using exact diagonalization and stochastic series expansion methods. The spin-spin correlation function as well as the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Nicolas laflorencie , Heiko Rieger , Anders W. Sandvik , Patrik Henelius

Using one-dimensional spin-orbital model as a typical example of quantum spin systems with richer symmetries, we study the effect of an isolated impurity on its low energy dynamics in the gapless phase through bosonization and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Yu-Wen Lee , Yu-Li Lee

Using equivalencies between different models we reduce the model of two spin-1/2 Heisenberg chains crossed at one point to the model of free fermions. The spin-spin correlation function is calculated by summing the perturbation series in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 S. A. Reyes , A. M. Tsvelik

We give a brief review of the Kondo effect and exactly solve the nonequilibrium Kondo problem at the special point in the parameter space of the model with spin-dependent chemical potentials. Using the obtained solution, we compute several…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-10-07 Hosho Katsura