Impurezas quanticas em sistemas com interação spin-órbita

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Sousa, Gilmar Regis de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Uberlândia; Brasil; Programa de Pós-graduação em Física
• Palavras-chave em Português: Física; Kondo, Efeito; Efeito Kondo; Interação spin-órbita; Grupo de renormalização; Kondo effect; Spin-orbit interaction; Renormalization group; CNPQ::CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::FISICA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/18117; http://doi.org/10.14393/ufu.di.2016.539

The effects of the spin-orbit interaction in systems with Kondo impurity has been a subject of study in recent decades with more intense discussions in recent years. Much of this interest is stimulated by the importance that the spin-orbit interaction has gained in the recent years in the context of condensed matter physics. In this work we revisit this problem in one-dimensional systems with strong Rashba as well as Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. More specifically, we investigate how the spin-orbit interaction modifies the Kondo temperature (TK ) of the system. We begin by describing the system via the Anderson model, taking into account the spin-orbit interactions for the conduction electrons. From this model we derive an effective Kondo-like Hamiltonian that describes not only the conventional Kondo effect, but also accounts for two additional terms. The first therm descri- bes the known Dzyaloshinskii Moriya interaction, while the second one describes electron scattering processes similar to those described by Elliot-Yafet. To determine the effects of the spin-orbit in- teraction on TK , we analyze the effective Hamiltonian via renormalization group. Our study shows that, due to a renormalization of the Kondo coupling, there is an increase of the Kondo temperature with increasing spin-orbit interaction. This occurs even at the particle-hole symmetry point, differing from recent results in the literature. The additional terms that appear in the Hamiltonian also contribute to the increase of TK away from the particle-hole symmetry. Moreover, the combination of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya and Elliot-Yafet mechanisms produce a dependency of the Kondo temperature on the spin-orbit coupling that is asymmetric regarding displacements of the impurity level position around the particle-hole symmetric point.