Dynamical scaling of charge and spin responses at a Kondo destruction quantum critical point

Abstract

Quantum critical points often arise in metals perched at the border of an antiferromagnetic order. The recent observation of singular and dynamically scaling charge conductivity in an antiferromagnetic quantum critical heavy fermion metal implicates beyond-Landau quantum criticality. Here we study the charge and spin dynamics of a Kondo destruction quantum critical point (QCP), as realized in an SU(2)-symmetric Bose-Fermi Kondo model. We find that the critical exponents and scaling functions of the spin and single-particle responses of the QCP in the SU(2) case are essentially the same as those of the large-N limit, showing that $1/N$ corrections are subleading. Building on this insight, we demonstrate that the charge responses at the Kondo destruction QCP are singular and obey $\omega /T$ scaling. This property persists at the Kondo destruction QCP of the SU(2)-symmetric Kondo lattice model.

arXiv comment5 pages, 4 figures; updated version, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett

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