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Enhancement of the Kondo effect through Rashba spin-orbit interactions
Mahdi Zarea1, Sergio E Ulloa, Nancy Sandler
1Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA.
Abstract:
We study a one-orbital Anderson impurity in a two-dimensional electron bath with Rashba spin-orbit interactions in the Kondo regime. The spin SU(2) symmetry-breaking term couples the impurity to a two-band electron gas. A Schrieffer-Wolff transformation shows the existence of the Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interaction away from the particle-hole symmetric impurity state. A renormalization group analysis reveals a two-channel Kondo model with ferro- and antiferromagnetic couplings. The parity-breaking Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya term renormalizes the antiferromagnetic Kondo coupling with an exponential enhancement of the Kondo temperature.
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