Interaction between Kondo impurities in a quantum corral

Abstract

We calculate the spectral densities for two impurities inside an elliptical quantum corral, using exact diagonalization in the relevant Hilbert subspace and embedding into the rest of the system. For one impurity, the space and energy dependence of the change in differential conductance $\ensuremath{\Delta}dI/dV$ observed in the quantum mirage experiment is reproduced. In presence of another impurity $\ensuremath{\Delta}dI/dV$ is very sensitive to the hybridization between impurity and bulk. The impurities are correlated ferromagnetically between them. A hopping $\ensuremath{\gtrsim}0.15 \mathrm{eV}$ between impurities destroys the Kondo resonance.