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We study the Kondo effect and related transport properties in orbitally degenerate vertical quantum dot systems with plural electrons. Applying the non-crossing approximation to the three-orbital Anderson impurity model with the finite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-09-10 Tomoko Kita , Rui Sakano , Takuma Ohashi , Sei-ichiro Suga

We discuss the possibility of a co-operative Kondo effect driven by channel interference in a Kondo lattice where local moments are coupled to a single Fermi sea via two orthogonal scattering channels. In this situation, the channel quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Coleman , A. M. Tsvelik , N. Andrei , H. Y. Kee

We illustrate the emergence of the three-channel Kondo effect in a seven-orbital impurity Anderson model hybridized with $\Gamma_7$ and $\Gamma_8$ conduction electron bands employing a numerical renormalization group method. In particular,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-01 Takashi Hotta

The Kondo effect, an eminent manifestation of many-body physics in condensed matter, is traditionally explained as exchange scattering of conduction electrons on a spinful impurity in a metal. The resulting screening of the impurity's local…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-28 M. Gomilšek , R. Žitko , M. Klanjšek , M. Pregelj , C. Baines , Y. Li , Q. M. Zhang , A. Zorko

We investigate the thermopower due to the orbital Kondo effect in a single quantum dot system by means of the noncrossing approximation. It is elucidated how the asymmetry of tunneling resonance due to the orbital Kondo effect affects the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Sakano , T. Kita , N. Kawakami

This review article provides an overview of the physics of the two-channel Kondo impurity model as manifested in two-level systems in metals and certain actinide/lanthanide ions in metals. Basic models are presented, followed by a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-09-25 D. L. Cox , A. Zawadowski

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

Despite the fact that the low energy behavior of the basic Kondo model cannot be studied perturbatively it was eventually shown by Wilson, Anderson, Nozieres and others to have a simple "local Fermi liquid theory" description. That is,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Ian Affleck

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

Recently it was shown that the multipolar Kondo problem, wherein a quantum impurity carrying higher-rank multipolar moments interacts with conduction electrons, leads to novel non-Fermi liquid states. Because of the multipolar character of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-25 Daniel J. Schultz , Adarsh S. Patri , Yong Baek Kim

It has been claimed that an impurity hopping between two sites in a metal can lead to non--Fermi liquid behavior if the bias between the two sites is tuned to zero. Here it is shown that several extra tunnelling processes are allowed; those…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Aris L. Moustakas , Daniel S. Fisher

The quest for quantum ground states beyond the conventional Fermi-liquid paradigm remains a central challenge in many-body physics. The ferromagnetic Kondo effect represents a particularly intriguing case: an exotic variant of the Kondo…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Elia Turco , Nils Krane , Hongyan Chen , Simon Gerber , Wulf Wulfhekel , Roman Fasel , Pascal Ruffieux , David Jacob

We present a general model of disorder in Kondo alloys that, under certain conditions, leads to non-Fermi liquid behavior. The central underlying idea is the presence of a distribution of local Kondo temperature scales. If this distribution…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-02-03 E. Miranda , V. Dobrosavljevic , G. Kotliar

A Coulomb blockaded $M$-Majorana island coupled to normal metal leads realizes a novel type of Kondo effect where the effective impurity "spin" transforms under the orthogonal group $SO(M)$. The impurity spin stems from the non-local…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-15 Guangjie Li , Yuval Oreg , Jukka I. Väyrynen

In a number of systems, including certain semiconductors and unconventional superconductors, the effective density of states varies near the Fermi energy like $|E-E_F|^r$. The behavior of dilute magnetic impurities in such systems is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Kevin Ingersent

The Kondo effect is a striking consequence of the coupling of itinerant electrons to a quantum spin with degenerate energy levels. While degeneracies are commonly thought to arise from symmetries or fine-tuning of parameters, the recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-11 B. Béri , N. R. Cooper

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

The topological Kondo effect arises when conduction electrons in metallic leads are coupled to a mesoscopic superconducting island with Majorana fermions. Working with its minimal setup, we study the lead electron local tunneling density of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-03 A. Latief , B. Béri

Orbital Kondo effect in a system of two single-level quantum dots attached to external electron reservoirs is considered theoretically. The dots are coupled via direct hoping term and Coulomb interaction. The Kondo temperature is evaluated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 Piotr Trocha

We study how the non-Fermi-liquid nature of the overscreened multi-channel Kondo impurity model affects the response to a BCS pairing term that, in the absence of the impurity, opens a gap $\Delta$. We find that non-Fermi liquid features do…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-02 Rok Žitko , Michele Fabrizio