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arXiv:1708.09139

Quantum Hall Charge Kondo Criticality

Zhi-qiang Bao, Fan Zhang

Published Aug 30, 2017• 3 citations
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Abstract

The long-thought charge Kondo effects have recently been experimentally realized in the quantum Hall regime. This experiment, supported by numerics, exemplifies the realization of two-channel Kondo state, a non-Fermi Liquid, and its crossover to the one-channel counterpart, a Fermi liquid. Scaling up such a platform, we find a hierarchy of non-Fermi Liquids and their tunable crossovers based on a renormalization group analysis. Utilizing results from a conformal field theory, we further examine the universal conductances of this strongly correlated system and their finite temperature scaling, which elucidate the sharp distinctions between charge and spin Kondo physics.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.1708.09139

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