Quantum phase transitions in a charge-coupled Bose-Fermi Anderson model

Details Quantum phase transitions in a charge-coupled Bose-Fermi Anderson model Quantum phase transitions in a charge-coupled Bose-Fermi Anderson model

2009-07-30

arxiv.org/abs/0907.5383v2

Phys. Rev. B 80, 165113 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

26 pages, 31 figures. Added references and corrected typos

Scientific paper

We study the competition between Kondo physics and dissipation within an Anderson model of a magnetic impurity level that hybridizes with a metallic host and is also coupled, via the impurity charge, to the displacement of a bosonic bath having a spectral density proportional to \omega^s. As the impurity-bath coupling increases from zero, the effective Coulomb interaction between two electrons in the impurity level is progressively renormalized from its repulsive bare value until it eventually becomes attractive. For weak hybridization, this renormalization in turn produces a crossover from a conventional, spin-sector Kondo effect to a charge Kondo effect. At particle-hole symmetry, and for sub-Ohmic bath exponents 0 < s < 1, further increase of the impurity-bath coupling results in a continuous, zero-temperature transition to a broken-symmetry phase in which the ground-state impurity occupancy \n_d acquires an expectation value <\n_d>_0 \ne 1. The response of the impurity occupancy to a locally applied electric potential features the hyperscaling of critical exponents and \omega/T scaling that are expected at an interacting critical point. The numerical values of the critical exponents suggest that the transition lies in the same universality class as that of the sub-Ohmic spin-boson model. For the Ohmic case s = 1, the transition is instead of Kosterlitz-Thouless type. Away from particle-hole symmetry, the quantum phase transition is replaced by a smooth crossover, but signatures of the symmetric quantum critical point remain in the physical properties at elevated temperatures and/or frequencies.

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