Critical charge fluctuations in a pseudogap Anderson model

Abstract

The Anderson impurity model with a density of states $\rho (\epsilon )\propto |\epsilon {|}^r$ containing a power-law pseudogap centered on the Fermi energy ($\epsilon =0$) features for $0<r<1$ a Kondo-destruction quantum critical point (QCP) separating Kondo-screened and local-moment phases. The observation of mixed valency in quantum critical $\beta$-YbAlB${}_4$ has prompted study of this model away from particle-hole symmetry. The critical spin response associated with all Kondo destruction QCPs has been shown to be accompanied, for $r=0.6$ and noninteger occupation of the impurity site, by a divergence of the local charge susceptibility on both sides of the QCP. In this work, we use the numerical renormalization-group method to characterize the Kondo-destruction charge response using five critical exponents, which are found to assume nontrivial values only for $0.55\lesssim r<1$. For $0<r\lesssim 0.55$, by contrast, the local charge susceptibility shows no divergence at the QCP, but rather exhibits nonanalytic corrections to a regular leading behavior. Both the charge critical exponents and the previously obtained spin critical exponents satisfy a set of scaling relations derived from an ansatz for the free energy near the QCP. These critical exponents can all be expressed in terms of just two underlying exponents: the correlation-length exponent $\nu (r)$ and the gap exponent $\Delta (r)$. The ansatz predicts a divergent local charge susceptibility for $\nu <2$, which coincides closely with the observed range $0.55\lesssim r<1$. Many of these results are argued to generalize to interacting QCPs that have been found in other quantum impurity models.

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