Kondo physics in a dissipative environment

MT Glossop, N Khoshkhou, K Ingersent - Physica B: Condensed Matter, 2008 - Elsevier
We report nonperturbative results for the interacting quantum-critical behavior in a Bose–
Fermi Kondo model describing a spin-12 coupled both to a fermionic band with a …

Critical local-moment fluctuations in the Bose-Fermi Kondo model

L Zhu, Q Si - Physical Review B, 2002 - APS
We consider the critical properties of the Bose-Fermi Kondo model, which describes a local
moment simultaneously coupled to a conduction electron band and a fluctuating magnetic …

Kondo physics and dissipation: A numerical renormalization-group approach to Bose-Fermi Kondo models

MT Glossop, K Ingersent - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2007 - APS
We extend the numerical renormalization-group method to treat Bose-Fermi Kondo models
(BFKMs) describing a local moment coupled both to a conduction band and to a dissipative …

The Bose-Fermi Kondo model with a singular dissipative spectrum: Exact solutions and their implications

J Dai, Q Si, CJ Bolech - arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.3280, 2007 - arxiv.org
Quantum dissipation induces a critical destruction of a Kondo screened state, which is of
interest in the contexts of quantum critical heavy fermion metals and magnetic …

Quantum critical Kondo destruction in the Bose-Fermi Kondo model with a local transverse field

EM Nica, K Ingersent, JX Zhu, Q Si - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2013 - APS
Recent studies of the global phase diagram of quantum-critical heavy-fermion metals prompt
consideration of the interplay between the Kondo interactions and quantum fluctuations of …

Berry phase and the breakdown of the quantum to classical mapping for the quantum critical point of the Bose-Fermi Kondo model

S Kirchner, Q Si - arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.2647, 2008 - arxiv.org
The phase diagram of the Bose-Fermi Kondo model contains an SU (2)-invariant Kondo-
screened phase separated by a continuous quantum phase transition from a Kondo …

Multiscale fluctuations near a Kondo breakdown quantum critical point

I Paul, C Pépin, MR Norman - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2008 - APS
We study the Kondo-Heisenberg model using a fermionic representation for the localized
spins. The mean-field phase diagram exhibits a zero-temperature quantum critical point …

Destruction of the Kondo effect in a multi-channel Bose–Fermi Kondo model

S Kirchner, L Zhu, Q Si - Physica B: Condensed Matter, 2005 - Elsevier
We consider the SU (N)× SU (κN) generalization of the spin-isotropic Bose–Fermi Kondo
model in the limit of large N. There are three fixed points corresponding to a multi-channel …

Quantum criticality in the pseudogap Bose-Fermi Anderson and Kondo models: Interplay between fermion-and boson-induced Kondo destruction

JH Pixley, S Kirchner, K Ingersent, Q Si - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2013 - APS
We address the phenomenon of critical Kondo destruction in pseudogap Bose-Fermi
Anderson and Kondo quantum impurity models. These models describe a localized level …

Critical Kondo destruction and the violation of the quantum-to-classical mapping of quantum criticality

S Kirchner, Q Si - Physica B: Condensed Matter, 2009 - Elsevier
Antiferromagnetic heavy fermion metals close to their quantum critical points display a
richness in their physical properties unanticipated by the traditional approach to quantum …