Critical Kondo destruction in a pseudogap Anderson model: scaling and relaxational dynamics

Matthew T Glossop1, Stefan Kirchner, J H Pixley

  • 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA.

Physical Review Letters
|September 10, 2011
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