Quantum impurity coupled to Majorana edge fermions

Details Quantum impurity coupled to Majorana edge fermions Quantum impurity coupled to Majorana edge fermions

2011-08-31

arxiv.org/abs/1108.6142v2

Phys. Rev. B 84 195310 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

13 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.84.195310

We study a quantum impurity coupled to the edge states of a two-dimensional helical topological superconductor, i.e., to a pair of counterpropagating Majorana fermion edge channels with opposite spin polarizations. For an impurity described by the Anderson impurity model, we show that the problem maps onto a variant of the interacting resonant two-level model which, in turn, maps onto the ferromagnetic Kondo model. Both magnetic and non-magnetic impurities are considered. For magnetic impurities, the bosonization and numerical renormalization group analyses show that the system flows to a fixed point with residual ln 2 entropy and we find characteristically anisotropic static and dynamic impurity magnetic susceptibilities. For non-magnetic impurities, the system flows to a fixed point with no residual entropy and we find diamagnetic response at low temperatures. We comment on the Schrieffer-Wolff transformation for problems with non-standard conduction band continua and on the issues related to the differences in describing the impurities by either Anderson or Kondo impurity models.

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