The Kondo effect in spin chains

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

Volumn 2008, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Laflorencie, Nicolas ^a,b   Sørensen, Erik S ^c,e   Affleck, Ian ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Kondo effect (theory); Quantum integrability (Bethe ansatz); Quantum Monte Carlo simulations; Renormalization group

Indexed keywords

EID: 40549143076     PISSN: 17425468     EISSN: 17425468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2008/02/P02007     Document Type: Article

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