Existence of two-channel Kondo regime for tunneling impurities with resonant scattering

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that resonant scattering off tunneling impurities enables the realization of the two-channel Kondo regime, overcoming previous limitations in weak coupling scenarios.

Contribution

It shows that resonant scattering allows access to the two-channel Kondo regime in tunneling impurities, contrary to earlier beliefs based on weak coupling analysis.

Findings

Resonant scattering facilitates the two-channel Kondo effect.

Weak coupling regime does not exhibit two-channel Kondo behavior.

Non-perturbative analysis confirms the regime's accessibility.

Abstract

Dynamical tunneling systems have been proposed earlier to display a two-channel Kondo effect, the orbital index of the particle playing the role of a pseudospin in the equivalent Kondo problem, and the spin being a silent channel index. However, as shown recently by Aleiner et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2629 (2001)], the predicted two-channel Kondo behavior can never be observed in the weak coupling regime, where the tunneling induced splitting of the levels of the tunneling system always dominates the physics. Here we show that the above scenario changes completely if the conduction electrons are scattered by resonant scattering off the tunneling impurity; Then - as a non-perturbative analysis reveals - the two-channel Kondo regime can easily be reached.