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Title: Undercompensated Kondo Impurity with Quantum Critical Point

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters

The low-temperature properties of a magnetic impurity of spin S interacting with an electron gas via anisotropic spin exchange are studied via Bethe's ansatz. For S>1/2 the impurity is only partially compensated at T=0 , leaving an effective spin that is neither integer nor half integer. The entropy has an essential singularity at H=T=0 , and the susceptibility and the specific heat follow power laws of H and T with nonuniversal exponents, which are the consequence of a quantum critical point. The results for the generalization to an arbitrary number of channels are also reported. (c) 2000 The American Physical Society.

OSTI ID:
20215552
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 84, Issue 7; Other Information: PBD: 14 Feb 2000; ISSN 0031-9007
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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