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- Title
Free magnetic moments in disordered metals.
- Authors
Kettemann, S.; Mucciolo, E. R.
- Abstract
The screening of magnetic moments in metals, the Kondo effect, is found to be quenched with a finite probability in the presence of nonmagnetic disorder. Numerical results for a disordered electron system show that the distribution of Kondo temperatures deviates strongly from the result expected from the random matrix theory. A pronounced second peak emerges for small Kondo temperatures, showing that the probability that magnetic moments remain unscreened at low temperatures increases with disorder. Analytical calculations, taking into account the correlations between eigenfunction intensities, yield a finite width for the distribution in the thermodynamic limit. Experimental consequences for disordered mesoscopic metals are discussed.
- Subjects
MAGNETICS; METALLURGY; RANDOM matrices; PARTICLES (Nuclear physics); DISTRIBUTION (Probability theory); LOW temperatures
- Publication
JETP Letters, 2006, Vol 83, Issue 6, p240
- ISSN
0021-3640
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1134/S0021364006060051