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The single channel Anderson impurity model is a standard model for the description of magnetic impurities in metallic systems. Usually, the bandwidth represents the largest energy scale of the problem. In this paper, we analyze the limit of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 W. Hofstetter , S. Kehrein

The Kondo effects of an Anderson impurity embedded into a d-wave superconductor is studied. Within the slave-boson mean-field approach, the derived Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations are solved via exact diagonalization. We show that a critical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Jian-Xin Zhu , C. S. Ting

We study the T=0 Kondo physics of a spin-1/2 impurity in a non-centrosymmetric metal with spin-orbit interaction. Within a simple variational approach we compute ground state properties of the system for an {\it arbitrary} form of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-02-23 L. Isaev , D. F. Agterberg , I. Vekhter

We study by NRG the spectral properties of a two-orbital Anderson impurity model in the presence of an exchange splitting which follows either regular or inverted Hund's rules. The phase diagram contains a non-Fermi liquid fixed point…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Lorenzo De Leo , Michele Fabrizio

We demonstrate that the Kondo effect can be induced through non-linear dissipative channels, without requiring any coherent interaction on the impurity site. Specifically, we consider a reservoir of noninteracting fermions that can hop on a…

We report on a novel Kondo phenomenon of interacting quantum dots coupled asymmetrically to a normal and a superconducting lead. The effects of intradot Coulomb interaction and Andreev tunneling give rise to Andreev bound resonances. As a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Qing-feng Sun , Hong Guo , Tsung-han Lin

An Anderson impurity in a Hubbard model on chains with finite length is studied using the density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG) technique. In the first place, we analyzed how the reduction of electron density from half-filling to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Costamagna , C. J. Gazza , M. E. Torio , J. A. Riera

We present theoretical investigation of a single magnetic impurity in a d-wave superconductor using the large N limit. It is shown that the Kondo screening occurs only in the presence of the particle-hole asymmetry. We find analytical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Anatoli Polkovnikov

We calculate the conductance through a single quantum dot coupled to metallic leads, modeled by the spin 1/2 Anderson model. We adopt the finite-U extension of the noncrossing approximation method. Our results are in good agreement with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Gerace , E. Pavarini , L. C. Andreani

We present an analytic universal impurity solver for strongly correlated electrons. We extend the many-body perturbation expansion via suitable two-particle renormalizations from the Fermi-liquid regime to the critical region of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-09-16 V. Janis , P. Augustinsky

We study the influence of a magnetic impurity or ultrasmall quantum dot on the charge persistent current of a mesoscopic ring. The system consists of electrons in a one-dimensional ring threaded by spin-dependent Aharonov-Bohm/Casher…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. -P. Eckle , H. Johannesson , C. A. Stafford

We study theoretically the Kondo effect for a magnetic adatom on graphene using the Anderson model.Upon obtaining the Green's function of the impurity to higher order contributions in the hybridization, we calculated analytically the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-10-12 Zhen-Gang Zhu , Jamal Berakdar

The s-d model describes a chain of spin-1/2 electrons interacting magnetically with a two-level impurity. It was introduced to study the Kondo effect, in which the magnetic susceptibility of the impurity remains finite in the 0-temperature…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-10 Giovanni Gallavotti , Ian Jauslin

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

Using the modified perturbation theory, we theoretically study the nonequilibrium Andreev transport through a quantum dot coupled to normal and superconducting leads (N-QD-S), which is strongly influenced by the Kondo and superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 Yasuhiro Yamada , Yoichi Tanaka , Norio Kawakami

We investigate the conductance statistics of a quantum-chaotic dot--a normal-metal grain--with a superconducting lead attached to it. The cases of one and two normal leads additionally attached to the dot are studied. For these two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-10 Victor A. Gopar , J. A. Mendez-Bermudez , Arafa H. Aly

We study the non-local superconducting pairing of two interacting Anderson impurities, which has an instability near the quantum critical point from the competition between the Kondo effect and an antiferromagnetic inter-impurity spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-05-11 Lijun Zhu , Jian-Xin Zhu

We have studied the effects of strong impurity scattering on disordered superconductors beyond the low impurity concentration limit. By applying the full CPA to a superconductiong A-B binary alloy, we calculated the fluctuations of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Moradian , J. F. Annett , B. L. Gyorffy , G. Litak

We study the nonequilibrium transport through a quantum dot coupled to normal and superconducting leads. We use the modified second-order perturbation theory to calculate the differential conductance and the local density of states at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-26 Yasuhiro Yamada , Yoichi Tanaka , Norio Kawakami

Anderson impurity model for semiconductor quantum dot is extended to take into account both particle and hole branches of charge excitations. It is shown that in dots with even number of electrons where the Kondo effect is absent in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Kikoin , Y. Avishai