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Communications in Theoretical Physics

Instability of Non-Fermi Liquid Behavior in the Two-Channel Kondo Model

Yuan Qing-Shan, Chen Hong, Yumei Zhang

Published May 15, 2001• 0 citations
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Abstract

The effects of interchannel scattering of conduction electrons by the impurity and repulsion of conduction electrons at the impurity site on the two-channel Kondo model are simultaneously considered in this paper. It is shown that these two perturbations will substantially modify the usual local non-Fermi liquid behavior of the two-channel Kondo model. With bosonization and unitary transformations we find that the system can be transformed into a single channel Kondo model with anisotropy between longitudinal and transverse exchange couplings. Whatever for originally antiferromagnetic or ferromagnetic isotropic coupling, the system always flows to strong-coupling limit, which exhibits local Fermi liquid behavior at low temperatures.

DOI
10.1088/0253-6102/35/5/621

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The effects of interchannel scattering of conduction electrons by the impurity and repulsion of conduction electrons at the impurity site on the two-channel Kondo model are simultaneously considered in this paper. It is shown that these two perturbations will substantially modify the usual local non-Fermi liquid behavior of the two-channel Kondo model. With bosonization and unitary transformations we find that the system can be transformed into a single channel Kondo model with anisotropy between longitudinal and transverse exchange couplings. Whatever for originally antiferromagnetic or ferromagnetic isotropic coupling, the system always flows to strong-coupling limit, which exhibits local Fermi liquid behavior at low temperatures.
It is shown that a non-Fermi-liquid fixed point of the multichannel Kondo problem is unstable for repulsive interaction at the impurity site between conduction electrons with different flavors and the same pseudospin. The anomalous fixed point is shown, by the perturbative renormalization group argument, to move into the strong coupling region with increasing repulsion. The low-temperature properties at the so-called “Toulouse limit” are calculated by the bosonization method to show that the Fermi-liquid like behavior is recovered quickly as soon as repulsion is switched on. This result poses a question as to the reality of the non-Fermi-liquid state for the multichannel Kondo model which has been examined extensively so far.
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The Kondo effect in a Luttinger liquid composed of right-moving, spin-up electrons and left-moving, spin-down electrons is mapped exactly onto the Kondo effect in a Fermi liquid. The transformation generates anisotropy in the exchange coupling, which explains the two most notable features of the Kondo effect in a full Luttinger liquid: the quenching of the impurity moment for ferromagnetic, as well as antiferromagnetic, exchange and a power-law dependence of the Kondo temperature on the exchange coupling. Impurity contributions to the low-energy thermodynamics have the same temperature dependence as in a Fermi liquid.