Local Defect in Metallic Quantum Critical Systems

Details Local Defect in Metallic Quantum Critical Systems Local Defect in Metallic Quantum Critical Systems

2001-04-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0104258v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

2 figures; 5 pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.167202

We present a theory of a single point, line or plane defect coupling to the square of the order parameter in a metallic system near a quantum critical point at or above its upper critical dimension. At criticality, a spin droplet is nucleated around the defect with droplet core size determined by the strength of the defect potential. Outside the core a universal slowly decaying tail of the droplet is found, leading to many dissipative channels coupling to the droplet and to a complete suppression of quantum tunneling. We propose an NMR experiment to measure the impurity-induced changes in the local spin susceptibility.

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