Quantum critical properties of the Bose-Fermi Kondo model in a large-N limit.

Phys Rev Lett

Department of Physics & Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005-1892, USA.

Published: December 2004

AI Article Synopsis

  • Research into heavy fermion systems has sparked interest in the Bose-Fermi Kondo model, driving a study using a large-N dynamical approach.
  • The analysis reveals an unstable fixed point at a quantum-critical point when the bosonic bath features a sub-Ohmic spectrum.
  • Findings indicate that at this critical threshold, the Kondo scale diminishes, the local spin susceptibility diverges for certain conditions, and a scaling behavior is observed that challenges traditional classical model mappings, highlighting the quantum characteristics of the critical point.

Article Abstract

Studies of non-Fermi-liquid properties in heavy fermions have led to the current interest in the Bose-Fermi Kondo model. Here we use a dynamical large-N approach to analyze an SU(N)xSU(kappaN) generalization of the model. We establish the existence in this limit of an unstable fixed point when the bosonic bath has a sub-Ohmic spectrum (/omega/(1-epsilon)sgnomega, with 0 or =1/2) the expectation of a naive mapping to certain classical models in an extra dimension; it reflects the inherent quantum nature of the critical point.

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