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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 84, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.84.195310
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- Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS) [Z1-2058, P1-0044]
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We study a quantum impurity coupled to the edge states of a two-dimensional helical topological superconductor, that is, 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 nonmagnetic impurities are considered. For magnetic impurities, an analysis relying on bosonization and the numerical renormalization group shows that the system flows to a fixed point characterized by a residual ln 2 entropy and anisotropic static and dynamical impurity magnetic susceptibilities. For nonmagnetic impurities, the system flows instead to a fixed point with no residual entropy and we find diamagnetic impurity response at low temperatures. We comment on the Schrieffer-Wolff transformation for problems with nonstandard conduction band continua and on the differences which arise when we describe the impurities by either Anderson or Kondo impurity models.
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