Magnon Bose–Einstein condensation and superconductivity in a frustrated Kondo lattice
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DOI10.1073/PNAS.2000501117zbMATH Open1485.82017arXiv1910.03589OpenAlexW2979694874WikidataQ98394373 ScholiaQ98394373MaRDI QIDQ5073136FDOQ5073136
Authors: P. A. Volkov, Snir Gazit, J. H. Pixley 
Publication date: 5 May 2022
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: Motivated by recent experiments on magnetically frustrated heavy fermion metals, we theoretically study the phase diagram of the Kondo lattice model with a nonmagnetic valence bond solid ground state on a ladder. A similar physical setting may be naturally occurring in YbAlC, CeAgBi, and TmB compounds. In the insulating limit, the application of a magnetic field drives a quantum phase transition to an easy-plane antiferromagnet, which is described by a Bose-Einstein condensation of magnons. Using a combination of field theoretical techniques and density matrix renormalization group calculations we demonstrate that in one dimension this transition is stable in the presence of a metallic Fermi sea and its universality class in the local magnetic response is unaffected by the itinerant gapless fermions. Moreover, we find that fluctuations about the valence bond solid ground state can mediate an attractive interaction that drives unconventional superconducting correlations. We discuss the extensions of our findings to higher dimensions and argue that, depending on the filling of conduction electrons, the magnon Bose-Einstein condensation transition can remain stable in a metal also in dimensions two and three.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.03589
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