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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
卷 105, 期 11, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.117201
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- TIFR
- IMSc
- DST [SR/S2/RJN-23/2006]
We study the effect of coupling magnetic impurities to the honeycomb lattice spin-1/2 Kitaev model in its spin-liquid phase. We show that a spin-S impurity coupled to the Kitaev model is associated with an unusual Kondo effect with an intermediate coupling unstable fixed point K-c similar to J/S separating topologically distinct sectors of the Kitaev model. We also show that the massless spinons in the spin-liquid mediate an interaction of the form (Si alpha Sj beta 2)-S-2/R-ij(3) between distant impurities unlike the usual dipolar RKKY interaction Si alpha Sj alpha/R-ij(3) noted in various 2D impurity problems with a pseudogapped density of states of the spin bath. Furthermore, this long-range interaction is possible only if the impurities (a) couple to more than one neighboring spin on the host lattice and (b) the impurity spin S not equal 1/2.
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