Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: Some well-established examples of itinerant-electron ferromagnetism in one dimension occur in a Mott-insulating phase. We examine the consequences of doping a ferromagnetic insulator and coupling magnons to gapless charge fluctuations. Using a bosonization scheme for strongly interacting electrons, we derive an effective field theory for the magnon-holon interaction. When the magnon momentum matches the Fermi momentum of the holons, the backscattering of the magnon at low energies gives rise to a Kondo effect of a pseudospin defined from the chirality degree of freedom (right- or left-moving particles). The crossover between weak-coupling and strong-coupling fixed points of the effective mobile-impurity model is then investigated using a numerical renormalization group approach.
Source: Physical Review B
Language: English
Subfield: Condensed Matter Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1964396107