We consider a Kondo-like impurity interacting with fermions on a honeycomb lattice at half-filling, as in the case of graphene. We derive from the lattice model an effective one-dimensional continuum theory which has, in general, four flavors with angular momentum mixing in the presence of internode scattering processes and six couplings in the spin-isotropic case. Under particular conditions, however, it can be reduced to a single-coupling multichannel pseudogap Kondo model. We finally calculate, for the case of the presence of an energy dependent Fermi velocity, induced by Coulomb interaction, the critical coupling in the large- N expansion, the magnetic susceptibility and the specific heat.

Kondo impurity on the honeycomb lattice at half-filling

DELL'ANNA, LUCA
2010

Abstract

We consider a Kondo-like impurity interacting with fermions on a honeycomb lattice at half-filling, as in the case of graphene. We derive from the lattice model an effective one-dimensional continuum theory which has, in general, four flavors with angular momentum mixing in the presence of internode scattering processes and six couplings in the spin-isotropic case. Under particular conditions, however, it can be reduced to a single-coupling multichannel pseudogap Kondo model. We finally calculate, for the case of the presence of an energy dependent Fermi velocity, induced by Coulomb interaction, the critical coupling in the large- N expansion, the magnetic susceptibility and the specific heat.
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