Asymmetric response of magnetic impurity in Bernal-stacked bilayer honeycomb lattice

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/27/7/077502

Abstract

We utilize the Hirsch-Fye quantum Monte Carlo method to investigate the local moment formation of a magnetic impurity in a Bernal-stacked bilayer honeycomb lattice. A tight-binding model with the two most significant inter-layer hoppings, t₁ between pairs of dimer sites and t₃ between pairs of non-dimer sites, is used to describe the kinetic energy of the system. The local moment formed shows an asymmetric response to the inter-layer hoppings depending on which sublattice the impurity is coupled to. In the dimer and non-dimer couplings, the effects of t₁ and t₃ onto the local moment are quite opposite. When tuning the local moment, this asymmetric response is observed in a wide parameter range. This asymmetric response is also discussed by the computations of spectral densities, as well as correlation functions between the magnetic impurity and the conduction electrons.

Keywords: local moments bilayer honeycomb lattices quantum Monte Carlo

Received: 03 April 2018
Revised: 19 April 2018
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PACS:	75.30.Hx	(Magnetic impurity interactions)
	75.20.Hr	(Local moment in compounds and alloys; Kondo effect, valence fluctuations, heavy fermions)
	73.90.+f	(Other topics in electronic structure and electrical properties of surfaces, interfaces, thin films, and low-dimensional structures)
	71.27.+a	(Strongly correlated electron systems; heavy fermions)

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Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11604166), the Zhejiang Open Foundation of the Most Important Subjects, China (Grant No. xkzw11609), and the K. C. Wong Magna Fund in Ningbo University, China.

Corresponding Authors: Jin-Hua Sun
E-mail: sunjinhua@nbu.edu.cn

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Jin-Hua Sun(孙金华), Ho-Kin Tang(邓皓键) Asymmetric response of magnetic impurity in Bernal-stacked bilayer honeycomb lattice 2018 Chin. Phys. B 27 077502

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