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Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 3701–3704 (1993)

Solution of an orbital Kondo array

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V. J. Emery
Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973

S. A. Kivelson
Department of Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90024

Received 5 August 1993; published in the issue dated 29 November 1993

We introduce a solvable model of a one-dimensional electron gas interacting with an array of dynamical scattering centers, whose state is specified by a pseudospin variable. In the dilute limit, for frequencies ω and temperatures T below the single-center Kondo scale but above a coherence scale Δ, the physics is governed by the fixed point of the single-impurity two-channel Kondo problem, and the physical properties are reminiscent of the normal state of the high-temperature superconductors. As ω and T→0, three susceptibilities are equally divergent: (1) conventional, spin-singlet even-parity pairing, (2) composite spin-singlet odd-parity pairing, and (3) odd-parity pseudospin.

© 1993 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.3701
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.3701
PACS:
74.20.Mn, 75.10.Jm, 75.25.+z