Novel duality in disorder driven local quantum criticality.
We find that competition between random Kondo and random magnetic correlations results in a quantum phase transition from a local Fermi liquid to a spin liquid. The local charge susceptibility turns out to have exactly the same critical exponent as the local spin susceptibility, suggesting a novel duality between the Kondo singlet phase and the critical local moment state beyond the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson symmetry breaking framework. This leads us to propose an enhanced symmetry at the local quantum critical point, described by an O(4) vector for spin and charge. The symmetry enhancement serves as a mechanism of electron fractionalization in critical impurity dynamics, where such fractionalized excitations are identified with topological excitations.
Tran
Minh-Tien
MT
Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, POSTECH, Pohang, Gyeongbuk 790-784, Republic of Korea.
Kim
Ki-Seok
KS