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Electronic nematicity that spontaneously breaks rotational symmetry has been shown as a generic phenomenon in correlated quantum systems including high-temperature superconductors and the AV3Sb5 (A = K, Rb, Cs) family with a kagome network.…

Kagome metals are as an exciting playground for the explorations of novel phenomena at the intersection of topology, electron correlations and magnetism. The family of FeSn-based kagome magnets in particular attracted a lot of attention for…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-26 Hong Li , He Zhao , Qiangwei Yin , Qi Wang , Zheng Ren , Shrinkhala Sharma , Hechang Lei , Ziqiang Wang , Ilija Zeljkovic

Kagome magnets can combine non-trivial band topology and electron correlations, offering a versatile playground for various quantum phenomena. In this work we propose that kagome magnets with frustrated interlayer interactions can…

Recent scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) experiments on underdoped cuprates have displayed modulations in the local electronic density of states which are centered on a Cu-O-Cu bond (Kohsaka et. al., cond-mat/0703309). As a paradigm of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-02-11 Max A. Metlitski , Subir Sachdev

We study in-gap states of a single magnetic impurity embedded in a honeycomb monolayer which is deposited on superconducting substrate. The intrinsic spin-orbit coupling induces the quantum spin Hall insulating (QSHI) phase gapped around…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-08-12 Szczepan Głodzik , Tadeusz Domański

A double quantum dot device, connected to two channels that only see each other through interdot Coulomb repulsion, is analyzed using the numerical renormalization group technique. By using a two-impurity Anderson model, and parameter…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-13 E. Vernek , C. A. Busser , E. V. Anda , A. E. Feiguin , G. B. Martins

We study the Kondo effect of spin-1/2 magnetic impurities in gapped Z2 spin liquids on two-dimensional lattices. We find that if the impurity is placed at a high-symmetry location, a nontrivial spinon fractionalization class of the impurity…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-04 Shuangyuan Lu , Yuan-Ming Lu

Quantum spin impurities coupled to superconductors are under intense investigation for their relevance to fundamental research as well as the prospects to engineer novel quantum phases of matter. Here we develop a large-$N$ mean-field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 Chen-How Huang , Alejandro M. Lobos , Miguel A. Cazalilla

We study theoretically a triangular cluster of three magnetic impurities, hybridizing locally with conduction electrons of a metallic host. Such a cluster is the simplest to exhibit frustration - an important generic feature of many complex…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-03-18 Andrew K. Mitchell , Thomas F. Jarrold , Martin R. Galpin , David E. Logan

We study the effects of quantum interference in impurity structures consisting of two or three magnetic impurities that are located on the surface of an s-wave superconductor. By using a self-consistent Bogoliubov-de Gennes formalism, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Dirk K. Morr , Jaesung Yoon

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

Kagome magnets provide a fascinating platform for a plethora of topological quantum phenomena. Here, utilizing angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, we demonstrate Weyl lines with strong out-of-plane dispersion in an A-A stacked kagome…

We study the different response to an impurity of the two topologically different phases shown by a two dimensional insulator with time reversal symmetry, namely, the Quantum Spin Hall and the normal phase. We consider the case of graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-24 J. W. González , J. Fernández-Rossier

We theoretically study the effect of localized magnetic impurities on two-dimensional topological superconductor (TSC). We show that the local density of states (LDOS) can be tuned by the effective exchange field $m$, the chemical potential…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-30 Zhen-Guo Fu , Ping Zhang , Zhigang Wang , Shu-Shen Li

We review research on a number of situations where a quantum impurity or a physical boundary has an interesting effect on entanglement entropy. Our focus is mainly on impurity entanglement as it occurs in one dimensional systems with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-05-07 Ian Affleck , Nicolas Laflorencie , Erik S. Sorensen

Kagome materials have garnered substantial attention owing to their diverse physical phenomena, yet canonical systems such as the AV$_3$Sb$_5$ family exhibit poor $Z_{2}$-type topological properties, spurring an urgent quest for kagome…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-17 Chi Wu , Tiantian Zhang

Quantum spin liquids are exotic quantum phases of matter that do not order even at zero temperature. While there are several toy models and simple Hamiltonians that could host a quantum spin liquid as their ground state, it is very rare to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-02 A. Kshetrimayum , C. Balz , B. Lake , J. Eisert

We study the Heisenberg ferromagnetic spin chain coupled with a boundary impurity. Via Bethe ansatz solution, it is found that (i) for J>0, the impurity spin behaves as a diamagnetic center and is completely screened by 2S bulk spins in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Yupeng Wang , Jianhui Dai

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

The quantum coherent coupling of completely different degrees of freedom is a challenging path towards creating new functionalities for quantum electronics. Usually the antagonistic coupling between spins of magnetic impurities and…