The cyclic sudden switch of a magnetic impurity from a Kondo to a non-Kondo state and back was recently proposed to involve an important dissipation of the order of several kBTK per cycle. The possibility to reveal this and other electronic processes through nanomechanical dissipation by, e.g., ultrasensitive atomic force microscope (AFM) tools would represent an unusual and interesting form of spectroscopy. Here, we explore the dependence on the switching time of the expected dissipation, a quantity whose magnitude is physically expected to drop from maximum to zero between sudden and slow switching, respectively. As an application of a recently established matrix-product-state-based time-dependent variational algorithm, we study the magnetic-field-induced Kondo switching in an Anderson model of the magnetic impurity. We find, quite reasonably, that dissipation requires switching within the Kondo timescale (kBTK)-1 or faster. While such a fast switching seems problematic for current AFM setups, the challenge remains open for future means to detect this dissipation by time-dependent magnetic fields, an electrostatic impurity level shift, or hybridization switching. The technical aspects revealed by this approach will be of interest for future nonequilibrium calculations.

Kondo nanomechanical dissipation in the driven Anderson impurity model / Kohn, L.; Santoro, G. E.; Fabrizio, M.; Tosatti, E.. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW. B. - ISSN 2469-9950. - 107:3(2023), pp. 1-7. [10.1103/PhysRevB.107.035415]

Kondo nanomechanical dissipation in the driven Anderson impurity model

Kohn, L.;Santoro, G. E.;Fabrizio, M.;Tosatti, E.
2023-01-01

Abstract

The cyclic sudden switch of a magnetic impurity from a Kondo to a non-Kondo state and back was recently proposed to involve an important dissipation of the order of several kBTK per cycle. The possibility to reveal this and other electronic processes through nanomechanical dissipation by, e.g., ultrasensitive atomic force microscope (AFM) tools would represent an unusual and interesting form of spectroscopy. Here, we explore the dependence on the switching time of the expected dissipation, a quantity whose magnitude is physically expected to drop from maximum to zero between sudden and slow switching, respectively. As an application of a recently established matrix-product-state-based time-dependent variational algorithm, we study the magnetic-field-induced Kondo switching in an Anderson model of the magnetic impurity. We find, quite reasonably, that dissipation requires switching within the Kondo timescale (kBTK)-1 or faster. While such a fast switching seems problematic for current AFM setups, the challenge remains open for future means to detect this dissipation by time-dependent magnetic fields, an electrostatic impurity level shift, or hybridization switching. The technical aspects revealed by this approach will be of interest for future nonequilibrium calculations.
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Kohn, L.; Santoro, G. E.; Fabrizio, M.; Tosatti, E.
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