Non-Fermi-liquid fixed point

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关键词: NUMERICAL RENORMALIZATION-GROUP;    2-LEVEL TUNNELING SYSTEMS;    LOW-TEMPERATURE PROPERTIES;    DILUTE MAGNETIC-ALLOYS;    CONFORMAL FIELD-THEORY;    ANDERSON MODEL;    KONDO PROBLEM;    ELECTRON MATERIALS;    STATIC PROPERTIES;    IMPURITIES;   

DOI  :  10.1103/PhysRevB.55.12460

来源: SCIE

【 摘 要 】

We study an exchange interaction in which conduction electrons with pseudospin S-c=3/2 interact with the impurity spin S-l=1/2. Due to the overscreening of the impurity spin by higher conduction electron spin, a nontrivial intermediate-coupling-strength fixed point is realized. Using the numerical renormalization group (NRG), we show that the low-energy spectra are described by a non-Fermi-liquid excitation spectrum. A conformal field theory analysis is compared with NRG results and excellent agreement is obtained. Using the double-fusion rule to generate the operator spectrum with the conformal theory, we find that the specific heat coefficient and magnetic susceptibility will diverge as T-2/3, that the scaling dimension of an applied magnetic field is 5/6, and that exchange anisotropy is always relevant. We discuss the possible relevance of our work to two-level-system Kondo materials and dilute cerium alloys, and we point out a paradox in understanding the Bethe-ansatz solutions to the multichannel Kondo model.

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