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The experimental existence and stability of the quantum criticality point of the two-channel Kondo (2CK) effect displaying exotic non-Fermi liquid physics has been buried in persistent confusion despite the intensive theoretical and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-15 L. J. Zhu , G. Woltersdorf , J. H. Zhao

We show that a junction of three off-critical quantum Ising chains can be regarded as a quantum spin chain realization of the two-channel spin-1/2 overscreened Kondo effect with two superconducting leads. We prove that, as long as the Kondo…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-28 Domenico Giuliano , Gabriele Campagnano , Arturo Tagliacozzo

We study the overscreened multi-channel Kondo (MCK) model using the recently developed unitary renormalization group (URG) technique. Our results display the importance of ground state degeneracy in explaining various important properties…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-01 Siddhartha Patra , Abhirup Mukherjee , Anirban Mukherjee , N. S. Vidhyadhiraja , A. Taraphder , Siddhartha Lal

Understanding out-of-equilibrium many-body quantum systems is crucial in contemporary physics. However, capturing the universal dynamics of such systems remains challenging despite advanced numerical methods. We investigate the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-30 Iksu Jang , Po-Yao Chang

The effective spin Hamiltonian of a triple quantum dot with odd electron occupation weakly connected in series with left ($l$) and right ($r$) metal leads is composed of two-channel exchange and co-tunneling terms. Renormalization group…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Kuzmenko , K. Kikoin , Y. Avishai

We carry out a theoretical analysis of a prototypical Majorana system, which demonstrates the existence of a Majorana-mediated many-body state and an associated intermediate low-energy fixed point. Starting from two Majorana bound states,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-14 Ian J. van Beek , Bernd Braunecker

The search for anyons is a field of immense interest owing to its potential application in the field of quantum information. Quantum critical Kondo impurities constitute one possible platform for their realization and Topological Kondo…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-17 Saheli Sarkar , Alexei M. Tsvelik

We discuss how multichannel Kondo physics can arise in the setting of a localized level coupled to several bosonic Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid leads. We propose one physical realization involving ultracold bosonic atoms coupled to an atomic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-06 Siddhartha Lal , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Paul M. Goldbart

The prospect of using semiconductor quantum dots as an experimental tool to distinguish Majorana zero modes (MZMs) from other zero-energy excitations such as Kondo resonances has brought up the fundamental question of whether topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-04 Joelson F. Silva , Luis G. G. V. Dias da Silva , E. Vernek

In this paper I present a conjecture for the Bethe ansatz equations for the model describing a star junction of $M$ quantum critical Ising chains. For $M>3$ such model exhibits the so-called topological Kondo effect [B. Beri and N. R.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-18 A. M. Tsvelik

The Kondo effect may develop in those cases where there are non-commuting operators describing the interaction between the conduction electrons and impurities or defects with internal degrees of freedom. This interaction may involve spin or…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-24 O. Újsághy , G. Zaránd , A. Zawadowski

We study the multi-channel Kondo impurity dynamics realized in a mesoscopic superconducting island connected to metallic leads. The effective 'impurity spin' is non-locally realized by Majorana bound states and strongly coupled to lead…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. Altland , B. Beri , R. Egger , A. M. Tsvelik

Multichannel Kondo lattice models are examples of strongly correlated electronic systems that exhibit non-Fermi-liquid behavior due to the presence of a continuous channel symmetry. Mean-field analyses have predicted that these systems…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-04-02 Yang Ge , Yashar Komijani

A multichannel Kondo model, where two or more equivalent but independent channels of electrons compete to screen a spin-1/2 impurity, shows overcompensation of the impurity spin, leading to the non-Fermi-liquid behavior in various…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-13 Ru Zheng , Rong-Qiang He , Zhong-Yi Lu

We reformulate the two-channel Kondo model to explicitly remove the unscattered charge degrees of freedom. This procedure permits us to move the non-Fermi liquid fixed point to infinite coupling where we can apply a perturbative…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-02-18 P. Coleman , L. Ioffe , A. M. Tsvelik

We investigate the Kondo effect in a structure which is constructed by embedding one quantum dot between a normal metal and a \emph{DIII}-class topological superconductor supporting Majorana doublets at its ends. It is observed that Kondo…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Zhen Gao , Wei-Jiang Gong

We study the low-temperature thermodynamics of a spin-S magnetic impurity coupled to m degenerate bands of interacting electrons in one dimension. By exploiting boundary conformal field theory techniques, we derive exact results for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Granath , H. Johannesson

We show that a Kondo-type model with an orbital degeneracy has a new non-Fermi-liquid fixed point. Near the fixed point the spin degrees of freedom are completely quenched, and the residual charge degrees of freedom lead to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Hiroaki Kusunose , Yoshio Kuramoto

A multi--channel generalization of Doniach's Kondo necklace model is formulated, and its phase diagram studied in the mean--field approximation. Our intention is to introduce the possible simplest model which displays some of the features…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-07-22 P. Fazekas , Hae-Young Kee

A novel large-N limit of the multichannel Kondo model is introduced, for representations of the impurity spin described by Schwinger bosons. Three cases are found, associated with underscreening, overscreening and exact Kondo screening of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-30 Olivier Parcollet , Antoine Georges