From Kondo effect to weak-link regime in quantum spin-1/2 spin chains

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关键词: NUMERICAL RENORMALIZATION-GROUP;    BOUNDARY FIELD-THEORY;    LUTTINGER LIQUID;    AMORPHOUS METALS;    2-LEVEL SYSTEM;    CORRELATION AMPLITUDE;    SCREENING CLOUD;    MODEL;    ELECTRONS;    IMPURITY;   

DOI  :  10.1103/PhysRevB.98.235164

来源: SCIE

【 摘 要 】

We analyze the crossover from Kondo to weak-link regime by means of a model of tunable bond impurities in the middle of a spin-1/2 XXZ Heisenberg chain. We study the Kondo screening cloud and estimate the Kondo length by combining perturbative renormalization group approach with the exact numerical calculation of the integrated real-space spin-spin correlation functions. We show that, when the spin impurity is symmetrically coupled to the two parts of the chain with realistic values of the Kondo coupling strengths and spin-parity symmetry is preserved, the Kondo length takes values within the reach of nowadays experimental technology in ultracold-atom setups. In the case of nonsymmetric Kondo couplings and/or spin parity broken by a nonzero magnetic field applied to the impurity, we discuss how Kondo screening redistributes among the chain as a function of the asymmetry in the couplings and map out the shrinking of the Kondo length when the magnetic field induces a crossover from Kondo impurity to weak-link physics.

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