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Kondo breakdown in a spin-$\dfrac12$ chain of adatoms on a Dirac semimetal

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Phys. Rev. Lett., 125 (20): 206602 (Nov 13, 2020)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.206602

Abstract

We consider a spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain coupled via a Kondo interaction to two-dimensional Dirac fermions. The Kondo interaction is irrelevant at the decoupled fixed point, leading to the existence of a Kondo-breakdown phase and a Kondo-breakdown critical point separating such a phase from a heavy Fermi liquid. We reach this conclusion on the basis of a renormalization group analysis, large-N calculations as well as extensive auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo simulations. We extract quantities such as the zero-bias tunneling conductance which will be relevant to future experiments involving adatoms on semimetals such as graphen

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