Collective excitations from composite orders in Kondo lattice with non-Kramers doublets

S Hoshino,Y Kuramoto

doi:10.1088/1742-6596/592/1/012098

S Hoshino, Y Kuramoto

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https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/592/1/012098

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Abstract

Goldstone modes emerge associated with spontaneous breakdown of the continuous symmetry in the two-channel Kondo lattice, which describes strongly correlated f-electron systems with a non-Kramers doublet at each site. This paper derives the spectra of these collective modes by the equation of motion method together with the random phase approximation. The diagonal composite order breaks the SU(2) channel symmetry, and the symmetry-restoring collective mode couples with magnetic field. On the other hand, the off-diagonal or superconducting composite order breaks the gauge symmetry of conduction electrons, and the collective mode couples with charge excitations near the zone boundary. At half-filling of the conduction bands, the spectra of these two modes become identical by a shift of the momentum, owing to the SO(5) symmetry of the system. The velocity of each Goldstone mode involves not only the Fermi velocity of conduction electrons but amplitude of the mean field as a multiplying factor. Detection of the Goldstone mode should provide a way to identify the composite order parameter.

Highlights

Localized f electrons in a metal interact with conduction electrons to cause a variety of interesting behaviors
We have already demonstrated [12, 13, 14] that the two-channel Kondo effect realizes exotic ground states with “composite order”, where the order parameter is not described by one-body quantities such as magnetization or density, but by combination of f - and conduction-electron degrees of freedom
Summary and Discussion We have demonstrated in this paper that onset of the composite order parameter can be detected from divergence of the odd-frequency susceptibility, which is derived within the standard framework of two-particle Green functions

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Localized f electrons in a metal interact with conduction electrons to cause a variety of interesting behaviors. We have already demonstrated [12, 13, 14] that the two-channel Kondo effect realizes exotic ground states with “composite order”, where the order parameter is not described by one-body quantities such as magnetization or density, but by combination of f - and conduction-electron degrees of freedom. The diagonally ordered state has a broken channel symmetry, and the corresponding mean-field is a hybridization between fictitious local fermions and conduction electrons in a particular channel.

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