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Impurity Entanglement Entropy and the Kondo Screening Cloud

Erik S. Sørensen, Ming-Shyang Chang, Nicolas Laflorencie, Ian Affleck

cond-mat.str-elarXiv:cond-mat/0606705

Abstract

The screening of an impurity spin by conduction electrons is associated with the formation of a large Kondo screening cloud, of size xiK. We study the quantum entanglement between a region of size r surrounding the impurity and the rest of the sample, (of total size R) using Density Matrix Renormalization Group and analytic methods. The corresponding &#34;impurity entanglement entropy&#34;, Simp, is shown to be a universal scaling function of r/xiK and r/R. We calculate this universal function using Fermi liquid theory in the regime xiK << r.

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