Spectral density for the elementary excitation of the multichannel Kondo model is investigated at finite temperatures with the use of the Bethe-ansatz method. Our formulation is based on the method of Yang and Yang developed in one-dimensional interacting boson systems. In the orbital singlet case, the narrow peak structure develops in the low-energy region as the temperature is decreased, whereas in the underscreened case, the excitation spectrum exhibits a divergence property at zero excitation energy, irrespective of the temperature. In the overscreened case, in which the non-Fermi-liquid fixed point is stable in the ground state, the peak structure develops in the low-energy region and the weight at zero excitation energy increases as the temperature is decreased. We discuss characteristic properties of the excitation spectrum in connection with bulk properties.
We investigate the ground-state properties of a recently proposed model for a topological Kondo insulator in one dimension (i.e., the
p-wave Kondo-Heisenberg lattice model) by means of the density-matrix renormalization-group method. The nonstandard Kondo interaction in this model is different from the usual (i.e., local) Kondo interaction in that the localized spins couple to the ``
p-wave'' spin density of conduction electrons, inducing a topologically nontrivial insulating ground state. Based on the analysis of the charge- and spin-excitation gaps, the string order parameter, and the spin profile in the ground state, we show that, at half filling and low energies, the system is in the Haldane phase and hosts topologically protected spin-1/2 end states. Beyond its intrinsic interest as a useful ``toy model'' to understand the effects of strong correlations on topological insulators, we show that the
p-wave Kondo-Heisenberg model could be experimentally implemented in $p\text{\ensuremath{-}}\mathrm{band}$ optical lattices loaded with ultracold Fermi gases.