We analyze the crossover from Kondo to weak-link regime by means of a model of tunable bond impurities in the middle of a spin-1/2 XXZ Heisenberg chain. We study the Kondo screening cloud and estimate the Kondo length by combining perturbative renormalization group approach with the exact numerical calculation of the integrated real-space spin-spin correlation functions. We show that, when the spin impurity is symmetrically coupled to the two parts of the chain with realistic values of the Kondo coupling strengths and spin-parity symmetry is preserved, the Kondo length takes values within the reach of nowadays experimental technology in ultracold-atom setups. In the case of nonsymmetric Kondo couplings and/or spin parity broken by a nonzero magnetic field applied to the impurity, we discuss how Kondo screening redistributes among the chain as a function of the asymmetry in the couplings and map out the shrinking of the Kondo length when the magnetic field induces a crossover from Kondo impurity to weak-link physics.

From Kondo effect to weak-link regime in quantum spin-1/2 spin chains / Giuliano, Domenico; Rossini, Davide; Trombettoni, Andrea. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW. B. - ISSN 2469-9950. - 98:23(2018), pp. 1-19. [10.1103/PhysRevB.98.235164]

From Kondo effect to weak-link regime in quantum spin-1/2 spin chains

Giuliano, Domenico;Rossini, Davide;Trombettoni, Andrea
2018-01-01

Abstract

We analyze the crossover from Kondo to weak-link regime by means of a model of tunable bond impurities in the middle of a spin-1/2 XXZ Heisenberg chain. We study the Kondo screening cloud and estimate the Kondo length by combining perturbative renormalization group approach with the exact numerical calculation of the integrated real-space spin-spin correlation functions. We show that, when the spin impurity is symmetrically coupled to the two parts of the chain with realistic values of the Kondo coupling strengths and spin-parity symmetry is preserved, the Kondo length takes values within the reach of nowadays experimental technology in ultracold-atom setups. In the case of nonsymmetric Kondo couplings and/or spin parity broken by a nonzero magnetic field applied to the impurity, we discuss how Kondo screening redistributes among the chain as a function of the asymmetry in the couplings and map out the shrinking of the Kondo length when the magnetic field induces a crossover from Kondo impurity to weak-link physics.
2018
98
23
1
19
235164
https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.98.235164
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07422
Giuliano, Domenico; Rossini, Davide; Trombettoni, Andrea
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