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Physical review. B, Condensed matter

Gap-formation mechanism of the Kondo-necklace model

Hiromi Otsuka, Tomotoshi Nishino

Published Dec 1, 1995• 21 citations
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Abstract

We investigate a gap-formation mechanism of the one-dimensional Kondo-necklace model at zero temperature. An analytic treatment using the bosonization method shows that the model undergoes the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition at the critical coupling ${J}_{c}=0$, which is described by the quantum sine-Gordon model. This result is contrary to the previous investigations on the ground-state phase transition, where some finite critical coupling values have been predicted. To clarify the validity of our analytic calculation result, we estimate the singlet-triplet gap by employing White's density matrix renormalization group method; the numerical calculation is carried out for the systems up to 200 sites with open boundary condition. As a result, we find that the excitation gap observed in the large $J$ region becomes smaller quickly with the decrease of $J$. However, the data show the existence of a small gap for $J>~0.25$, which seems to support ${J}_{c}=0$.

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10.1103/physrevb.52.15066

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The ``Kondo-necklace'' model is studied by exact numerical diagonalization on finite chains up to N=12 sites. The gap extrapolated to infinite systems can be well fitted by a Kosterlitz-Thouless-like form with a critical coupling (J/W)c{)}_{\mathit{c}})c​=0.24. Although this value is appreciably smaller than the best estimate from real-space renormalization, our results indicate strongly a finite critical coupling in contrast to the one-dimensional Kondo lattice.
The two-dimensional classical sine-Gordon model is investigated by using a two-parameter self-consistent renormalization method up to second order of renormalized vertices, where coupled self-consistent equations for renormalized mass m and renormalized temperature x are obtained. In high temperature region (x > 2), the self-consistent equations have a massless solution which stands for the existence of the Kosterlitz-Thouless phase, and lead to an equation for x which is the same as that given by José et al. and is consistent with the result of Wilson's renormalization group method. In low temperature region (x < 2), numerical calculation is carried out, and it is shown that the system is well described by the self-consistent harmonic approximation, which is a one-parameter (m) renormalization treatment, except near x = 2. Near x ≲ 2 our self-consistent equations have no solution, through this can be partly remedied by counting chain diagrams.
"We use the density matrix renormalization group to calculate the von Neumann block entropy in the Kondo necklace model. We have included two anisotropies: η in the exchange interaction between conduction spins, and ∆ in the coupling between localized and conduction spins. Calculating the energy gap for the one-dimensional model at zero temperature, it was obtained that when η > 0, a quantum phase transition between Kondo singlet and antiferomagnetic states for finite couplings occurs, and as ∆ increases the Kondo singlet phase is favoured. Now we observe that the quantum critical points of the model can be identified by a maximum of the von Neumann block entropy, so entanglement measures can be useful for determining the phase diagram of the anisotropic Kondo necklace model."
Abstract Using the density matrix renormalization group method, we study the one‐dimensional Kondo necklace model including two anisotropies: η in the XY interaction of the conduction chain, and Δ in the local Kondo coupling between localized and conduction spins. For different values of the anisotropies, we calculate the energy gap and estimate the quantum critical points in which a phase transition from antiferromagnetic to spin liquid states takes place, assuming a Kosterlitz–Thouless‐like behavior. For the case η=0\eta = 0η=0 , the system remains in a spin liquid state for the different Δ considered, but when η≠0\eta \ne 0η=0 , Δ markedly affects the location of the critical points. We also calculate correlation functions for a specific case, in order to support our gap results.
The Kondo-necklace model can describe magnetic low-energy limit of strongly correlated heavy fermion materials. There exist multiple energy scales in this model corresponding to each phase of the system. Here, we study quantum phase transition between the Kondo-singlet phase and the antiferromagnetic long-range ordered phase, and show the effect of anisotropies in terms of quantum information properties and vanishing energy gap. We employ the perturbative continuous unitary transformations approach to calculate the energy gap and spin-spin correlations for the model in the thermodynamic limit of one, two, and three spatial dimensions as well as for spin ladders. In particular, we show that the method, although being perturbative, can predict the expected quantum critical point, where the gap of low-energy spectrum vanishes, which is in good agreement with results of other numerical and Green's function analyses. In addition, we employ concurrence, a bipartite entanglement measure, to study the criticality of the model. Absence of singularities in the derivative of concurrence in two and three dimensions in the Kondo-necklace model shows that this model features multipartite entanglement. We also discuss crossover from the one-dimensional to the two-dimensional model via the ladder structure.