Spin in a fluctuating field: The Bose(+Fermi) Kondo models
- 1 February 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 61 (6) , 4041-4043
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.61.4041
Abstract
I consider models with an impurity spin coupled to a fluctuating Gaussian field with or without additional Kondo coupling of the conventional sort. In the case of isotropic fluctuations, the renormalization-group flows for these models have controlled fixed points when the autocorrelation of the Gaussian field with small positive In the absence of any additional Kondo coupling, I get power-law decay of spin correlators, For negative the spin autocorrelation is constant in long-time limit. The results agree with calculations in Schwinger Boson mean-field theory. In presence of a Kondo coupling to itinerant electrons, the model shows a phase transition from a Kondo phase to a field fluctuation dominated phase. These models are good starting points for understanding behavior of impurities in a system near a zero-temperature magnetic transition. They are also useful for understanding the dynamical local mean-field theory of Kondo lattice with Heisenberg (spin-glass-type) magnetic interactions as well as for understanding spin-fluid solutions near Mott transition in model.
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