Semiclassical solution of one dimensional model of Kondo insulator
- 14 February 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 72 (7) , 1048-1051
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.72.1048
Abstract
The model of a Kondo chain with an M-fold degenerate band of conduction electrons of spin 1/2 at half filling interacting with localized spins S is studied. It is shown that in the continuous limit the spectrum of spin excitations is described by the O(3) nonlinear sigma model with the topological term with θ=π(2S-M). Thus for ‖M-2S‖ = (even) the system is an insulator and single electron excitations at low energies are massive spin polarons. Otherwise the density of states has a pseudogap and vanishes only at the Fermi level.Keywords
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