ABCD of Kondo Effect

Effect of ABCD transformations on beam paraxiality.

The limits of the paraxial approximation for a laser beam under ABCD transformations is established through the relationship between a parameter concerning the beam paraxiality, the paraxial estimator, and the beam second-order moments. The applicability of such an estimator is extended to an optical system composed by optical elements as mirrors and lenses and sections of free space, what comp...

11 The Kondo Effect

Revival of the Kondo effect

33 WHY would anyone still want to study a physical phenomenon that was discovered in the 1930s, explained in the 1960s and has been the subject of numerous reviews since the 1970s? Although the Kondo effect is a well known and widely studied phenomenon in condensedmatter physics, it continues to capture the imagination of experimentalists and theorists alike. The effect arises from the interact...

Hexadecapolar Kondo effect in URu2Si2?

We derive the coupling of a localized hexadecapolar mode to conduction electrons in tetragonal symmetry. The derivation can be easily adapted to arbitrary multipoles in an arbitrary environment. We relate our model to the two-channel Kondo (2CK) model and show that for an f(2) configuration a relevant crystal field splitting in addition to the 2CK interaction is intrinsic to tetragonal symmetry...

Kondo effect in oscillating molecules

We consider electronic transport through break-junctions bridged by a single molecule in the Kondo regime. We describe the system by a two-channel Anderson model. We take the tunneling matrix elements to depend on the position of the molecule. It is shown, that if the modulation of the tunneling by displacement is large, the potential confining the molecule to the central position between the l...