Interplay of charge and spin fluctuations in a Hund's coupled impurity

Abstract

In Hund's metals, the local ferromagnetic interaction between orbitals leads to an emergence of complex electronic states with large and slowly fluctuating magnetic moments. Introducing the Hund's coupled mixed valence quantum impurity, we gain analytic insight into recent numerical renormalization group studies. We show that valence fluctuations drastically impede the development of a large fluctuating moment over a wide range of temperatures and energy, characterized by quenched orbital degrees of freedom and a singular logarithmic behavior of the spin susceptibility $\chi_{\rm sp}''(\omega) \propto [\omega \ln(\omega/T_K^{\rm eff})^2]^{-1}$, closely resembling power-law scaling $\chi_{\rm sp}''(\omega) \sim \omega^{-\gamma}$. Such singular spin fluctuations are suspected to play an important role in future models of Hund's driven Cooper pairing.