Kondo effect and non-Fermi-liquid behavior in Dirac and Weyl semimetals

A Principi, G Vignale, E Rossi - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We study the Kondo effect in three-dimensional (3D) Dirac materials and Weyl semimetals.
We find the scaling of the Kondo temperature with respect to the doping n and the coupling J …

Pairing correlations near a Kondo-destruction quantum critical point

JH Pixley, L Deng, K Ingersent, Q Si - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
Motivated by the unconventional superconductivity observed in heavy-fermion metals, we
investigate pairing susceptibilities near a continuous quantum phase transition of the Kondo …

Critical charge fluctuations in a pseudogap Anderson model

T Chowdhury, K Ingersent - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
The Anderson impurity model with a density of states ρ (ɛ)∝| ɛ| r containing a power-law
pseudogap centered on the Fermi energy (ɛ= 0) features for 0< r< 1 a Kondo-destruction …

Steady-state dynamics and effective temperature for a model of quantum criticality in an open system

P Ribeiro, F Zamani, S Kirchner - Physical Review Letters, 2015 - APS
We study the thermal and nonthermal steady-state scaling functions and the steady-state
dynamics of a model of local quantum criticality. The model we consider, ie, the pseudogap …

Entanglement entropy near Kondo-destruction quantum critical points

JH Pixley, T Chowdhury, MT Miecnikowski, J Stephens… - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We study the impurity entanglement entropy S e in quantum impurity models that feature a
Kondo-destruction quantum critical point (QCP) arising from a pseudogap in the conduction …

Critical quasiparticles in single-impurity and lattice Kondo models

M Vojta, R Bulla, P Wölfle - The European Physical Journal Special Topics, 2015 - Springer
Quantum criticality in systems of local moments interacting with itinerant electrons has
become an important and diverse field of research. Here we review recent results which …

Quantum criticality in a Kondo quantum dot coupled to helical edge states of interacting 2D topological insulators

CH Chung, S Silotri - New Journal of Physics, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate theoretically the quantum phase transition (QPT) between the one-channel
Kondo (1CK) and two-channel Kondo (2CK) fixed points in a quantum dot coupled to helical …

Influence of a bosonic environment onto the non-equilibrium dynamics of local electronic states in a quantum impurity system close to a quantum phase transition

C Kleine, FB Anders - arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.06221, 2015 - arxiv.org
We investigate the influence of an additional bosonic bath onto the real-time dynamics of a
localized orbital coupled to conduction band with an energy-dependent coupling function …

[PDF][PDF] Real-time Dynamics of Quantum Impurity Systems in fermionic and bosonic Environments

C Kleine - 2015 - eldorado.tu-dortmund.de
In condensed matter physics we generally have to deal with a large number O (1023) of
interacting particles. Their interaction is described quantum-mechanically by a Hamiltonian …

[PDF][PDF] 6 NRG with Bosons

K Ingersent - Autumn School organized by the Forschungszentrum … - core.ac.uk
The lecture notes in this Autumn School describe many quantum impurity problems of
current interest in connection with the physics of strongly correlated electrons, as well as …