Spin-orbit scattering and the Kondo effect
- 15 August 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 50 (7), 4947-4950
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.50.4947
Abstract
The effects of spin-orbit scattering of conduction electrons in the Kondo regime are investigated theoretically. It is shown that due to time-reversal symmetry, spin-orbit scattering does not suppress the Kondo effect, even though it breaks spin-rotational symmetry, in full agreement with experiment. An orbital magnetic field, which breaks time-reversal symmetry, leads to an effective Zeeman splitting, which can be probed in transport measurements. It is shown that, similar to weak localization, this effect has anomalous magnetic-field and temperature dependence.Keywords
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