Critical properties of the Fermi-Bose Kondo and pseudogap Kondo models: Renormalized perturbation theory

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Contributors

  • Marijana Kirćan - , Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Author)
  • Matthias Vojta - , Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Author)

Abstract

Magnetic impurities coupled to both fermionic and bosonic baths or to a fermionic bath with pseudogap density of states, described by the Fermi-Bose Kondo and pseudogap Kondo models, display nontrivial intermediate-coupling fixed points associated with critical local-moment fluctuations and local non-Fermi liquid behavior. Based on renormalization group together with a renormalized perturbation expansion around the free-impurity limit, we calculate various impurity properties in the vicinity of those intermediate-coupling fixed points. In particular, we compute the conduction electron T matrix, the impurity susceptibility, and the residual impurity entropy, and relate our findings to certain scenarios of local quantum criticality in strongly correlated lattice models.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Article number174421
Pages (from-to)174421-1-174421-16
JournalPhysical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Volume69
Issue number17
Publication statusPublished - May 2004
Peer-reviewedYes
Externally publishedYes