TY - JOUR
T1 - Spin-orbit scattering and the Kondo effect
AU - Meir, Yigal
AU - Wingreen, Ned S.
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 1994
Y1 - 1994
N2 - The effects of spin-orbit scattering of conduction electrons in the Kondo regime are investigated theoretically. It is shown that due to time-reversal symmetry, spin-orbit scattering does not suppress the Kondo effect, even though it breaks spin-rotational symmetry, in full agreement with experiment. An orbital magnetic field, which breaks time-reversal symmetry, leads to an effective Zeeman splitting, which can be probed in transport measurements. It is shown that, similar to weak localization, this effect has anomalous magnetic-field and temperature dependence.
AB - The effects of spin-orbit scattering of conduction electrons in the Kondo regime are investigated theoretically. It is shown that due to time-reversal symmetry, spin-orbit scattering does not suppress the Kondo effect, even though it breaks spin-rotational symmetry, in full agreement with experiment. An orbital magnetic field, which breaks time-reversal symmetry, leads to an effective Zeeman splitting, which can be probed in transport measurements. It is shown that, similar to weak localization, this effect has anomalous magnetic-field and temperature dependence.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevB.50.4947
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.50.4947
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0004879786
VL - 50
SP - 4947
EP - 4950
JO - Physical Review B
JF - Physical Review B
SN - 0163-1829
IS - 7
ER -