title: Spin correlations and finite-size effects in the one-dimensional kondo box.
abstract: We analyze the Kondo effect of a magnetic impurity attached to an ultrasmall metallic wire using the density matrix renormalization group. The spatial spin correlation function and the impurity spectral density are computed for system sizes of up to L=511 sites, covering the crossover from L<l{K} to L>l{K}, with l{K} the spin screening length. We establish a proportionality between the weight of the Kondo resonance and l{K} as a function of L. This suggests a spectroscopic way of detecting the Kondo cloud.
authors.affiliation: Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bonn, Nussallee 12, 53115 Bonn, Germany.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hand
authors.forename: Johann
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kroha
authors.forename: Hartmut
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Monien