Exact critical theory of the two impurity Kondo model

Dec 3, 1991
10 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 68 (1992) 1046-1049
Report number:
  • UBCTP-91-026

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Abstract: (APS)
The two-impurity Kondo Hamiltonian is known to possess a multicritical point separating stable Fermi-liquid phases in which the two impurities either form a singlet or else are screened by the conduction electrons. We propose an exact critical theory for this non-Fermi-liquid multicritical point, using conformal field theory methods, which predicts all critical properties including the finite-size spectrum, specific heat, susceptibilities, renormalization-group behavior, residual entropy, scattering matrix, and local pair Green’s function.