Universal cross-over behavior of a magnetic impurity and consequences for doping in spin-1/2 chains

Abstract

We consider a magnetic impurity in the antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 chain which is equivalent to the two-channel Kondo problem in terms of the field theoretical description. Using a modification of the transfer-matrix density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) we are able to determine local and global properties in the thermodynamic limit. The cross-over function for the impurity susceptibility is calculated over a large temperature range, which exhibits universal data-collapse. We are also able to determine the local susceptibilities near the impurity, which show an interesting competition of boundary effects. This results in quantitative predictions for experiments on doped spin-1/2 chains, which could observe two-channel Kondo physics directly.

5 pages in revtex format including 3 embedded figures (using epsf). The latest version in PDF format is available from http://fy.chalmers.se/~eggert/papers/crossover.pdf . Accepted by PRL

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