Revista Mexicana de Física
Kondo necklace model with planar and local anisotropies: entanglement approach
Juan José Mendoza-Arenas, R. Franco, Jereson Silva-Valencia
Abstract
"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."