Theory of Orbital Kondo Effect with Assisted Hopping in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems: Parquet Equations, Superconductivity and Mass Enhancement

TL;DR

This paper develops a theoretical framework for the orbital Kondo effect involving assisted hopping, revealing how it leads to mass enhancement and superconductivity, with detailed calculations of vertex corrections and transition temperatures.

Contribution

It introduces a formalism using parquet equations to analyze the orbital Kondo effect with assisted hopping, connecting mass enhancement to superconductivity in strongly correlated systems.

Findings

Mass enhancement occurs with assisted hopping.

Superconductivity transition temperature peaks at intermediate mass enhancement.

Vertex corrections show power-law behavior influenced by Coulomb interactions.

Abstract

Orbital Kondo effect is treated in a model, where additional to the conduction band there are localized orbitals close to the Fermi energy. If the hopping between the conduction band and the localized heavy orbitals depends on the occupation of the atomic orbitals in the conduction band then orbital Kondo correlation occurs. The noncommutative nature of the coupling required for the Kondo effect is formally due to the form factors associated with the assisted hopping which in the momentum representation depends on the momenta of the conduction electrons involved. The leading logarithmic vertex corrections are due to the local Coulomb interaction between the electrons on the heavy orbital and in the conduction band. The renormalized vertex functions are obtained as a solution of a closed set of differential equations and they show power behavior. The amplitude of large renormalization is determined by an infrared cutoff due to finite energy and dispersion of the heavy particles. The enhanced assisted hopping rate results in mass enhancement and attractive interaction in the conduction band. The superconductivity transition temperature calculated is largest for intermediate mass enhancement, $m^*/m \approx 2-3$. For larger mass enhancement the small one particle weight ($Z$) in the Green's function reduces the transition temperature which may be characteristic for other