Magnetic impurity in an itinerant Anti-Ferromagnet: Undressing the Kondo effect

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Abstract

We study the undressing of the Kondo effect in the aniferromagnetic phase of an itinerant metal. Expressed in terms of the quasiparticles of the AF, the Kondo interaction induces a new relevant operator that leads to incomplete screening and the ground state is no longer a spin singlet. We show how this comes about by expressing the exchange Hamiltonian in terms of the irreducible representation of the square lattice antiferromagnet and performing a renormalisation group calculation to obtain the ground state properties.

Authors

  • Vivek Aji

  • Chandra Varma

    University of California at Riverside

  • Ilya Vekhter

    Louisiana State University