Quantum Boltzman equation study for the Kondo breakdown quantum critical point

TL;DR

This paper develops a quantum Boltzman equation framework to analyze transport near the Kondo breakdown quantum critical point, emphasizing the role of vertex corrections and their impact on non-Fermi liquid behavior.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive quantum Boltzman equation approach for the Kondo breakdown quantum critical point, including vertex corrections for multiple scattering channels.

Findings

Vertex corrections cancel self-energy divergences, ensuring gauge invariance.

Hybridization fluctuation vertex corrections are irrelevant due to heavy spinon mass.

The approach explains non-Fermi liquid transport with temperature linear dependence.

Abstract

We develop the quantum Boltzman equation approach for the Kondo breakdown quantum critical point, involved with two bands for conduction electrons and localized fermions. Particularly, the role of vertex corrections in transport is addressed, crucial for non-Fermi liquid transport of temperature linear dependence. Only one band of spinons may be considered for scattering with gauge fluctuations, and their associated vertex corrections are introduced in the usual way, where divergence of self-energy corrections is cancelled by that of vertex corrections, giving rise to the physically meaningful result in the gauge invariant expression for conductivity. On the other hand, two bands should be taken into account for scattering with hybridization excitations, giving rise to coupled quantum Boltzman equations. We find that vertex corrections associated with hybridization fluctuations turn out to be irrelevant due to heavy mass of spinons in the so called decoupling limit, consistent with the diagrammatic approach showing the non-Fermi liquid transport.