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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

The spatial length of the Kondo screening is still a controversial issue related to Kondo physics. While renormalization group and Bethe Anzats solutions have provided detailed information about the thermodynamics of magnetic impurities,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-06-17 C. A. Büsser , G. B. Martins , L. Costa Ribeiro , E. Vernek , E. V. Anda , E. Dagotto

The Kondo effect is a cornerstone in the study of strongly correlated fermions. The coherent exchange coupling of conduction electrons to local magnetic moments gives rise to a Kondo cloud that screens the impurity spin. Whereas complete…

Magnetic impurities are responsible for many interesting phenomena in condensed matter systems, notably the Kondo effect and quantum phase transitions. Here we present a holographic model of a magnetic impurity that captures the main…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-03 J. Erdmenger , M. Flory , C. Hoyos , M-N. Newrzella , A. O'Bannon , J. Wu

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

A magnetic impurity embedded in a metal host is collectively screened by a cloud of conduction electrons to form a Kondo singlet below a characteristic energy scale $T_K$, the Kondo temperature, through the mechanism of the Kondo effect. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-19 Ru Zheng , Rong-Qiang He , Zhong-Yi Lu

We investigate the Kondo effect in two-dimensional disordered electron systems using a finite-temperature quantum Monte Carlo method. Depending on the position of a magnetic impurity, the local moment is screened or unscreened by the spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Takuma Ohashi , Sei-ichiro Suga

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…

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 investigate the Kondo effect in two-dimensional disordered electron systems using a finite-temperature quantum Monte Carlo method. Depending on the position of a magnetic impurity, the local moment is screened or unscreened by the spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-24 S. Suga , T. Ohashi

The Kondo effect is a universal phenomena observed in a variety of fermion systems containing a heavy impurity particle whose interaction is governed by the non-Abelian interaction. At extremely high density, I study the Kondo effect by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-07 Shigehiro Yasui

We demonstrate the existence of a large Kondo screening cloud in the k-channel Kondo model using both renormalization group improved perturbation theory and the large-k limit. We study position (r) dependent spin Green's functions in both…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-30 Victor Barzykin , Ian Affleck

We propose a method to directly measure, by electrical means, the Kondo screening cloud formed by an Anderson impurity coupled to semi-infinite quantum wires, on which an electrostatic gate voltage is applied at distance L from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-23 Jinhong Park , S. -S. B. Lee , Yuval Oreg , H. -S. Sim

We study a generalized Kondo model in which a spin-1/2 impurity is coupled to a conduction band by both s-d exchange and potential interactions. A strong potential scattering is shown to screen an exchange scattering, and the Kondo…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Valery I. Rupasov

We study how the formation of the Kondo compensation cloud influences the dynamical properties of a magnetic impurity that tunnels between two positions in a metal. The Kondo effect dynamically generates a strong tunneling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Borda , G. Zarand

We generalize the iterative diagonalization procedure adopted in method of numerical renormalization group to analyze the Kondo effect in strong magnetic fields, where the density of states for itinerary electrons at the chemical potential…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-23 Po-Hao Chou , Chung-Hou Chung , Chung-Yu Mou

We study how the multi-channel Kondo effect is dynamically induced to affect the photoemission and the inverse photoemission spectrum when an electron is emitted from (or added to) the completely screened Kondo impurity with spin $S>1/2$.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Fujii , N. Kawakami

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

The Kondo effect is a key many-body phenomenon in condensed matter physics. It concerns the interaction between a localised spin and free electrons. Discovered in metals containing small amounts of magnetic impurities, it is now a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 S. Sasaki , S. De Franceschi , J. M. Elzerman , W. G. van der Wiel , M. Eto , S. Tarucha , L. P. Kouwenhoven

The Kondo effect in a one-dimensional spin-1/2 XXZ model in the gapless XY regime (-1<Delta<=1) is studied both analytically and numerically. In our model an impurity spin (S=1/2) is coupled to a single spin in the XXZ spin chain.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Furusaki , T. Hikihara