Anisotropic Kondo screening induced by spin-orbit coupling in quantum wires
arXiv:2007.06044 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.102.155114
Abstract
Using the numerical renormalization group (NRG) method we study a magnetic impurity coupled to a quantum wire with Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in an external magnetic field. We consider the low-filling regime with the Fermi energy close to the bottom of the band and report the results for local static and dynamic properties in the Kondo regime. In the absence of the field, local impurity properties remain isotropic in spin space despite the SOC-induced magnetic anisotropy of the conduction band. In the presence of the field, clear fingerprints of anisotropy are revealed through the strong field-direction dependence of the impurity spin polarization and spectra, in particular of the Kondo peak height. The detailed behavior depends on the relative magnitudes of the impurity and band -factors. For the case of impurity -factor somewhat lower than the band -factor, the maximal Kondo peak suppression is found for field oriented along the effective SOC field axis, while for a field perpendicular to this direction we observe a compensation effect (``revival of the Kondo peak''): the SOC counteracts the Kondo peak splitting effects of the local Zeeman field. We demonstrate that the SOC-induced anisotropy, measurable by tunneling spectroscopy techniques, can help to determine the ratio of Rashba and Dresselhaus SOC strengths in the wire.
7 pages, 9 figures
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