Kondo screening in a Majorana metal

Abstract Kondo impurities provide a nontrivial probe to unravel the character of the excitations of a quantum spin liquid. In the S = 1/2 Kitaev model on the honeycomb lattice, Kondo impurities embedded in the spin-liquid host can be screened by itinerant Majorana fermions via gauge-flux binding. He...

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Main Authors: S. Lee, Y. S. Choi, S.-H. Do, W. Lee, C. H. Lee, M. Lee, M. Vojta, C. N. Wang, H. Luetkens, Z. Guguchia, K.-Y. Choi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43185-3