Kondo "underscreening" cloud: spin-spin correlations around a partially screened magnetic impurity

Abstract

We consider the spatial spin correlations around a partially screened spin-1 magnetic moment in a metal exhibiting the underscreened Kondo effect. We find that the underscreening of the impurity spin results in spatial spin correlations that are more pronounced as compared to the fully screened Kondo effect; their power-law decay is weaker because of characteristic logarithmic corrections at large distances. The spin correlator also changes sign as a function of distance to the impurity allowing for ferromagnetic correlations between conduction electron spin density and the local moment. The numerical findings are shown to be in agreement with the predictions deriving from an effective ferromagnetic Kondo Hamiltonian.

4+ pages, 2 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B

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