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An Anderson Impurity Interacting with the Helical Edge States in a Quantum Spin Hall Insulator |
| Ru Zheng, Rong-Qiang He**, Zhong-Yi Lu** |
| Department of Physics, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872 |
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Ru Zheng, Rong-Qiang He, Zhong-Yi Lu 2018 Chin. Phys. Lett. 35 067301 |
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Abstract Using the natural orbitals renormalization group (NORG) method, we investigate the screening of the local spin of an Anderson impurity interacting with the helical edge states in a quantum spin Hall insulator. It is found that there is a local spin formed at the impurity site and the local spin is completely screened by electrons in the quantum spin Hall insulator. Meanwhile, the local spin is screened dominantly by a single active natural orbital. We then show that the Kondo screening mechanism becomes transparent and simple in the framework of the natural orbitals formalism. We project the active natural orbital respectively into real space and momentum space to characterize its structure. We confirm the spin-momentum locking property of the edge states based on the occupancy of a Bloch state on the edge to which the impurity couples. Furthermore, we study the dynamical property of the active natural orbital represented by the local density of states, from which we observe the Kondo resonance peak.
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Received: 10 May 2018
Published: 12 May 2018
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73.43.-f
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(Quantum Hall effects)
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71.10.-w
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(Theories and models of many-electron systems)
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73.20.Hb
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(Impurity and defect levels; energy states of adsorbed species)
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| Fund: Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 11474356 and 11774422. R.Q.H. was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, and the Research Funds of Renmin University of China. Computational resources were provided by National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou with Tianhe-2 Supercomputer and Physical Laboratory of High Performance Computing in RUC. |
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