Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2007-11-16
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
28 pages, 6 figures, submitted to PRB
Scientific paper
An effective Hamiltonian which could model the interaction between a tunneling proton and the conduction electrons of a metal is investigated. A remarkably simple correlation between the motion of the $TLS$-atom and an angular-momentum change of scattering electron is deduced, at the first-order Born level, by using a momentum-space representation with plane waves for initial and final states. It is shown that the angular average of the scattering amplitude-change at the Fermi surface depends solely on the difference of the first two phase shifts, for small-distance displacements of the heavy particle. For such a limit of displacement, and within a distorted-wave Born approximation for initial and final states, the change in the scattering amplitude is expressed via trigonometric functions of scattering phase shifts at the Fermi energy. The numerical value of this change is analyzed in the framework of a self-consistent screening description for impurity-embedding in a paramagnetic electron gas. In order to discuss the so-called antiabatic limit on the same footing, a comparison with matrix elements obtained by the potential-gradient of an unscreened Coulomb field is given as well. The coupling of the tunneling proton to a free-electron-like electron gas is in the typical range obtained, by ultrasound experiments for different metallic glasses, from scattering rates for a Korringa-type relaxation process. That coupling is too weak to be in the range required for realization of the two-channel Kondo effect.
Nagy Ilona
Zawadowski Alfred
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