Abstract
Impurities or boundaries often impose nontrivial boundary conditions on a gapless bulk, resulting in distinct boundary universality classes for a given bulk, phase transitions, and non-Fermi liquids in diverse systems. The underlying boundary states however remain largely unexplored. This is related with a fundamental issue how a Kondo cloud spatially forms to screen a magnetic impurity in a metal. Here we predict the quantum-coherent spatial and energy structure of multichannel Kondo clouds, representative boundary states involving competing non-Fermi liquids, by studying quantum entanglement between the impurity and the channels. Entanglement shells of distinct non-Fermi liquids coexist in the structure, depending on the channels. As temperature increases, the shells become suppressed one by one from the outside, and the remaining outermost shell determines the thermal phase of each channel. Detection of the entanglement shells is experimentally feasible. Our findings suggest a guide to studying other boundary states and boundary-bulk entanglement.
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Introduction
Boundary quantum critical phenomena1,2 appear in gapless systems of quantum impurities2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11, magnets with surfaces12, edge states of topological orders13, and qubit dissipation14,15. There, the presence of a boundary causes various boundary criticalities that affect the bulk, depending on boundary-bulk coupling. A character of boundaries has been revealed by the boundary or impurity entropy16,17,18,19 that is the entropy difference between the presence and absence of the boundary. This entropy corresponds to the constant term in the dependence of the ground-state entanglement entropy on the location of the entanglement partition18. The entropy is a bulk quantity, as the partition is placed at long distance from the boundary, and it has been obtained by using the boundary conformal field theory (BCFT)8,9,10,20,21,22, a standard approach for the criticalities.
While bulk quantities have been understood, boundary states are yet to be explored23,24,25,26. The Kondo singlet23 in the single-channel Kondo effect, a many-body state of metallic electrons formed to screen a local impurity spin, implies that quantum entanglement between a bulk and its boundary is essential for understanding the quantum-coherent boundary-bulk coupling27,28,29. The spatial distribution of the particles forming the boundary-bulk entanglement will be a key information of boundary quantum criticalities and related many-body effects. As the partition for the boundary-bulk entanglement is placed right at the boundary27,28,29,30, the entanglement differs from the boundary entropy. There are difficulties in studying the entanglement. In BCFTs, the boundary degrees of freedom are absorbed into the bulk as boundary conditions, and bulk properties at long distance from the boundary are considered. Experimentally detecting entanglement typically requires inaccessible multiparticle observables. Understanding about the entanglement is desired.
Multichannel Kondo effects, where multiple channels of conduction electrons compete to screen an impurity spin, serve as a paradigm of many-body physics and boundary criticalities6,7,8,9,10. For example, in the k-channel Kondo (kCK) effect, k electron channels compete to screen an impurity spin 1/2. It is described by the Hamiltonian
Here, the impurity spin Simp locally couples to the spin Sj(0) of electrons in the jth channel with strength Jj > 0, and Hj describes free electrons in the jth channel. In the Affleck-Ludwig BCFT8,9,10, the channel-isotropic case of J1 = ⋯ = Jk is transformed into a free electron Hamiltonian with a nontrivial boundary condition, by mapping Hj to a semi-infinite one dimension, and fusing the impurity with the boundary of the one dimension. It exhibits a boundary criticality. In channel-anisotropic cases, the competition between the channels results in quantum phase transitions2, various non-Fermi liquids (NFLs)6,8, and fractionalizations31, making the effects rich. Thermal phases and their renormalization flows of the channel-anisotropic Kondo effects were experimentally observed by using quantum dots or metallic islands32,33,34,35,36.
The boundary states of the Kondo effects involve a Kondo cloud24,25,26 formed by the conduction electrons screening the impurity spin. Theoretically the cloud has been studied17,18,19,37,38,39 mostly for channel-isotropic cases. For anisotropic 2CK effects, a quantity called the excess charge density was used to study a real-space structure that indicates spatial regions corresponding to the local moment and strong coupling phases40. However this quantity may not be suitable for quantifying the spatial distribution of a Kondo cloud, as it can be negative at certain distances from the impurity spin and even increase with the distance. The properties of the cloud, such as its channel-resolved spatial distribution, its entanglement with the impurity, its correspondence to the transition or crossover between distinct NFL phases, and its thermal suppression, are yet to be studied. It also remains unknown how to detect the clouds in the multichannel cases, while a cloud was recently observed41,42 in the single-channel case.
The entanglement between an impurity and its Kondo cloud is a boundary-bulk entanglement27,28,29,30. The spatial distribution of the electrons forming this entanglement will characterize how the cloud spatially screens the impurity quantum coherently. In this work, we propose how to theoretically quantify and experimentally measure the distribution by applying a perturbation of local symmetry breaking (LSB) at a distance from the impurity. The distribution is found to exhibit channel-dependent hierarchical entanglement shells of NFL, Kondo Fermi liquid (FL), or non-Kondo FL characters in the channel-anisotropic cases. Each shell is identified by a power-law decay of the distribution with the distance, whose exponent is determined by the scaling dimension of the boundary operator describing the character. As the temperature increases, the shells are suppressed one by one from the outside, and the remaining outmost shell determines the thermal phase of each channel. The entanglement shell structure shows that different NFLs and FLs hierarchically coexist around the boundary with spatial and energetical separation, reflecting the renormalization of the quantum-coherent impurity screening (quantified by the entanglement) in the presence of the channel competition.
Results
Quantifying boundary entanglement distribution
We study the entanglement negativity \({{{{{{{\mathcal{N}}}}}}}}\equiv \parallel {\rho }^{{{{{{{{{\rm{T}}}}}}}}}_{{{{{{{{\rm{I}}}}}}}}}}{\parallel }_{1}-1\) between the impurity and the channels in the kCK effects. ρ is the density matrix of the whole system, ∥ ⋅ ∥1 is the trace norm, and TI means the partial transpose on the impurity. This negativity is twice the conventional definition43,44 so that its maximum value is 1. It measures quantum coherence of the screening. The screening happens by the maximal entanglement \({{{{{{{\mathcal{N}}}}}}}}=1\) independent of k in the channel-isotropic cases at zero temperature30.
To quantify the spatial distribution of the entanglement, we apply an LSB perturbation breaking the Kondo SU(2) symmetry in a channel n at distance L from the impurity [Fig. 1a], and study the reduction ρn of the negativity from the value \({{{{{{{{\mathcal{N}}}}}}}}}_{0}(T)\) in the absence of the LSB to \({{{{{{{\mathcal{N}}}}}}}}(L,T;n)\) in the presence of the LSB,
at temperature T. ρn varies between 0 and 1. Larger ρn implies that at the distance L there exist more electrons participating in the entanglement. Therefore the L dependence of the reduction ρn(L, T) quantifies the spatial distribution of the Kondo cloud in the channel n.
The negativity has a direct relation30 with the impurity magnetization M = 〈Simp〉 at zero temperature (Supplementary Note 1),
where Simp is the impurity spin operator. This shows that the magnetization is larger as the impurity spin is less screened by, equivalently less entangled with, conduction electrons. This relation is valid at zero temperature in general situations of the Kondo effects, and it is a good approximation at low temperature T ≪ TK, where TK is the Kondo temperature.
For details, we consider a Hamiltonian HkCK + HLSB. The Kondo Hamiltonian HkCK is shown in Eq. (1). Here each channel is described by free electrons in a semi-infinite one dimensional system and the impurity spin is located at the boundary of the one dimension. HLSB describes the LSB by a local magnetic field B along x axis coupled to the spin Sn,x(L) in a channel n at distance L from the impurity,
In the presence of the LSB, we compute the negativity between the impurity and the channels at finite temperature by using the numerical renormalization group (NRG) method (Supplementary Notes 2-4) that we have developed29. We also obtain the negativity at zero temperature by using Eq. (3) and analytically computing the magnetization based on the BCFT in the presence of the LSB (Supplementary Note 5).
Isotropic multichannel Kondo clouds
We first consider the channel-isotropic case of J1 = J2 = ⋯ = Jk = J. At T ~ TK, there occurs thermal crossover from the infrared Kondo fixed point to the ultraviolet local moment (LM) phase. The Kondo phase is a FL in the single-channel case4,5 and a NFL in the multichannel cases of k ≥ 26,8.
In Fig. 1, the spatial distribution ρn of the entanglement is obtained at zero temperature. The distribution extends over the whole space, having the core and the tail inside and outside the cloud length ξK = ℏv/(kBTK), where v is the Fermi velocity. ρn is much larger in the core than in the tail, showing that most electrons forming the cloud lies in the core. The core does not show any characteristics of the zero-temperature bulk criticality, strongly “binding” with the impurity. The core corresponds to the LM phase40. By contrast, the tail slowly decays, following the universal power law
We derive Eq. (5) using the BCFT (Supplementary Note 5), with focusing on the envelope of the Friedel oscillations in the L dependence of ρn. The power-law exponent is governed by the scaling dimension Δ of the BCFT operator describing the impurity spin. For k = 1, Δ = 1, which implies the FL of the 1CK. For k ≥ 2, Δ = 2/(2 + k), which signifies the NFL of the kCK8. The tail accords with the bulk criticality. The exponent Δ at each phase is summarized in Table 1.
The core and tail structure of the entanglement distribution ρn is a visualization of the quantum-coherent Kondo cloud. The LSB is useful for the visualization.
Entanglement shells of anisotropic multichannel Kondo clouds
We next consider channel-anisotropic cases of k channels. It is known that there are multiple crossover temperatures6. At T ≳ TK, the LM phase happens. At T * ≲ T ≲ TK, the Kondo effect by the k channels (kCK) occurs, where T * is a crossover temperature determined by the anisotropy. Below T * there can appear \({k}^{{\prime} }\)-channel Kondo effects with \({k}^{{\prime} } < k\). The zero temperature phase is a k″CK with \({k}^{{\prime\prime} }\le {k}^{{\prime} }\) where k″ is the number of the channels having the largest coupling. These are shown in the phase diagrams of Figs. 2a and 3a.
We first discuss the Kondo cloud of the anisotrpic kCKs at zero temperature. We find that the spatial distribution ρn has the core and the tail of a shell structure [Figs. 2 and 3a–h]. ρn is much larger in the core, which appears over L ≲ ξK, than in the tail, as in the isotropic case. The tail has hierarchical multiple shells of distinct entanglement scaling behaviors. In the innermost shell, all the k channels follow the power-law decay of \({\rho }_{n}(L)\propto {({\xi }_{{{{{{{{\rm{K}}}}}}}}}/L)}^{2\Delta }\) with Δ = 2/(2 + k). This shell corresponds to the NFL of the isotropic kCK, as identified by Eq. (5) and shown in Table 1, and appears at ξK ≲ L ≲ ξ* with ξ* = ℏv/(kBT*). The core and the innermost shell are identical between the channels, although the coupling strengths Ji are different.
On the other hand, the other shells are channel dependent. In the outermost shell, the k″ channels having the same coupling strength but larger than the others show different behavior from the others. These largest-coupling channels exhibit the distribution ρn(L) of the power-law decay with Δ = 1 for k″ = 1 (namely when one channel has stronger coupling than all the others) and Δ = 2/(2 + k″) for k″ ≥ 2. These channels in the shell exhibit the zero-temperature k″CK phase, as implied by Eq. (5) (see also Table 1). The other k − k″ channels of weaker coupling in this shell also have nonzero distribution ρn, albeit smaller than that of the k″ channels. They follow the power-law decay of ρn(L) with Δ = 1, showing a non-Kondo FL that does not show the Kondo effect as discussed below. Hence the outermost shell of the Kondo cloud is composed of the NFL (resp. FL) of the k″CK in the k″ channels of the strongest coupling for k″ ≥ 2 (resp. k″ = 1) and the non-Kondo FL in the other channels.
We discuss about the non-Kondo FL behavior in the k − k″ channels of weaker coupling. The value of Δ = 1 implies that these channels are Fermi liquids. Although the value is identical to that of the 1CK case (see Table 1), these channels of weaker coupling do not exhibit Kondo behaviors. For example, in an anisotropic 2CK model4,5,45,46, the channel of stronger coupling exhibits the π scattering phase shift as in the 1CK case, while the weaker-coupling channel does not. It is interesting that a spin cloud, having an algebraic tail (indicated by the non-vanishing entanglement between the impurity and the channels), is developed in these weaker-coupling channels. A recent work26 reported a similar finding that a spin cloud appears in a non-Kondo phase of a superconductor coupled with a magnetic impurity.
In Figs. 2 and 3a–h, these features of the outermost shell are shown for the 2CK of J1 = J + δJ and J2 = J − δJ, and the 3CK of J1,2 = J + (δJ)/2 and J3 = J − δJ. The shell appears at L ≳ ξ *, where \({\xi }^{*}\propto|\delta J{|}^{-2}{T}_{{{{{{{{\rm{K}}}}}}}}}^{-1}\) for the 2CK and \({\xi }^{*}\propto|\delta J{|}^{-5/2}{T}_{{{{{{{{\rm{K}}}}}}}}}^{-1}\) for the 3CK35. At L ≳ ξ * in the 2CK, the channel 1 of stronger coupling has the 1CK FL, while the channel 2 has a non-Kondo FL. We find, using the bosonization47,48 (Supplementary Note 6), that the channel 2 shows nonzero distribution ρ2 smaller than the channel 1, following \({\rho }_{2}/{\rho }_{1}\cong {T}^{*}/\nu {T}_{{{{{{{{\rm{K}}}}}}}}}^{2}\) at L ≫ ξ * [Fig. 2e]. ν is the density of states. In the 3CK with δJ > 0, the channels 1 and 2 having the largest coupling exhibit the 2CK NFL in the outermost shell, while the channel 3 shows a non-Kondo FL. In the 3CK with δJ < 0, the channel 3 of the largest coupling shows the 1CK FL in the outermost shell, while the other channels exhibit a non-Kondo FL.
In general anisotropic kCKs, there appear intermediate shells corresponding to a q1CK, a q2CK, ⋯ (from outer to inner) between the innermost and outermost shells, with the hierarchy k″ < q1 < q2 < ⋯ < k determined by the coupling strengths Jn=1,2,⋯ ,k. In the shell of the qiCK, the qi channels having larger coupling than the others exhibit the qiCK NFL, while the other k − qi channels show a non-Kondo FL. For example, we find that in the most general case of the 3CK with J1 > J2 > J3, the Kondo cloud is composed of the core, the innermost 3CK shell, the intermediate 2CK shell (having the 2CK NFL in two channels of larger coupling and a non-Kondo FL in the other), and the outermost 1CK shell (having the 1CK FL in the channel of the largest coupling and a non-Kondo FL in the others) at zero temperature (Supplementary Note 4).
Thermal evaporation of entanglement shells
To examine the thermal decoherence of the entanglement shells and hence the Kondo cloud, we compute ρn(L, T) in Eq. (2) at finite temperatures, using the NRG. \({\rho }_{n}(L,T)={{{{{{{{\mathcal{N}}}}}}}}}_{0}(T)-{{{{{{{\mathcal{N}}}}}}}}(L,T;n)\) quantifies the difference of the entanglement between the absence and presence of the LSB at temperature T; \({{{{{{{{\mathcal{N}}}}}}}}}_{0}(T)\) measures the entanglement that survives against thermal fluctuations at T, while \({{{{{{{\mathcal{N}}}}}}}}(L,T;n)\) measures the entanglement at T further reduced by the LSB at distance L in channel n. More reduction occurs as the impurity spin is more entangled with (i.e., more screened by) electrons at L. Hence, ρn(L, T) quantifies the entanglement distribution at T with varying L. Note that in the absence of the LSB, the entanglement algebraically decays thermally30, \({{{{{{{{\mathcal{N}}}}}}}}}_{0}(T)=1-{a}_{k}{(T/{T}_{{{{{{{{\rm{K}}}}}}}}})}^{2\Delta }\) at T ≪ TK, where ak > 0 is a constant.
For the 3CK with δJ > 0, Fig. 3e–p show the temperature dependence of the entanglement shells. Thermal fluctuations suppress shells outside the thermal length ℏv/(kBT), while it does almost not affect shells inside. So the outer shells are thermally “evaporated” one by one. At T ≪ T *, the outermost shell, located at L > ξ *, shows the 2CK NFL in the channels 1 and 2, as discussed above. At T * ≲ T ≲ TK, the outermost shell is almost suppressed. Then the remaining inner shell at ξK ≲ L ≲ ξ *, whose character is the 3CK NFL, determines the thermal phase. When the temperature further increases to T ≳ TK, only the core at L ≲ ξK survives and represents the LM thermal phase.
This clearly shows that the hierarchical shells of the boundary entanglement at zero temperature is the manifestation of the renormalization group flow in the development of the Kondo effects. Inner shells are “bound” more strongly with, namely more entangled with, the impurity, being more robust against thermal fluctuations. Namely, inner shells cause the boundary condition of the bulk conduction electrons of higher energies, hence, determining phases at higher temperature. Note that a related temperature dependence of a single-channel Anderson impurity model was discussed in ref. 40.
How to detect boundary entanglement shells
Equation (3) implies that the entanglement distribution ρn(L), hence, the Kondo cloud can be experimentally detected by monitoring the change of the impurity magnetization with varying the position L of an LSB in a channel n. The relation is exact at zero temperature and a very good approximation at T ≪ TK and L ≲ ℏv/(kBT) where thermal fluctuations negligibly affect ρn(L) as demonstrated in Fig. 3.
We propose an experiment based on a charge-Kondo circuit34,35 with which multichannel Kondo effects can be manipulated. It has a metallic dot coupled to k quantum Hall edge channels (Fig. 4). Energy-degenerate charge states \(\left|N\right\rangle\) and \(\left|N+1\right\rangle\) of the dot form the pseudospin 1/2, and the excess charge ΔQ ≡ Q − (N + 1/2)e of the dot plays the role of the magnetization M/ℏ of the pseudospin. Here N and Q denote the number of electrons and the charge operator for the dot, respectively, and e is the electron charge.
We show that a quantum point contact placed on a channel n at distance L from the dot results in an LSB breaking the SU(2) pseudospin symmetry (Fig. 4 and Supplementary Note 7). At T = 0, the negativity in the absence of the LSB is \({{{{{{{{\mathcal{N}}}}}}}}}_{0}(T=0)=1\)30, while the negativity in the presence of the LSB is \({{{{{{{\mathcal{N}}}}}}}}(L,T=0;n)=\sqrt{1-4{\langle \Delta Q/e\rangle }^{2}}\) [see Eq. (3)]. These give \({\rho }_{n}(L,T=0)={{{{{{{{\mathcal{N}}}}}}}}}_{0}(T=0)-{{{{{{{\mathcal{N}}}}}}}}(L,T=0;n)=1-\sqrt{1-4{\langle \Delta Q/e\rangle }^{2}}\simeq 2{\langle \Delta Q/e\rangle }^{2}\) for small 〈ΔQ/e〉 ≪ 1. At low temperature T ≪ TK where thermal fluctuation on 〈ΔQ/e〉2 is negligible, ρn(L, T) can be approximated as the zero-temperature value of ρn(L, T = 0) ≃ 2〈ΔQ/e〉2. It is possible to measure ΔQ(L), hence ρn(L), by monitoring electric current through another quantum point contact49 nearby the dot. The entanglement shells in isotropic and anisotropic kCKs can be experimentally identified with realistic parameters (Supplementary Note 7).
Discussion
Our work demonstrates how a spin cloud screening a local magnetic impurity in a metal differs at the fundamental level from a charge cloud screening an excess charge. For the demonstration, we developed a theory of the boundary-bulk entanglement in multichannel Kondo effects. Utilizing an LSB, the spatial distribution and thermal suppression of the entanglement can be computed and experimentally detected. The distribution is a visualization of the spatial and energy structure of the quantum-coherent Kondo spin screening cloud.
The boundary-bulk entanglement is applicable to general boundary quantum critical phenomena as below. The entanglement quantifies the quantum-coherent coupling between the boundary and the bulk in boundary criticalities. Its spatial structure will have information of competing phases or boundary conditions, as suggested by the hierarchical shells of Kondo clouds. In spin-1/2 boundary criticalities, it is obtained, using the boundary magnetization and Eq. (3). In more general cases, it may be calculated with BCFT boundary operators30.
An LSB that breaks the boundary-bulk coupling symmetry will be useful for identifying the boundary structure of boundary criticalities. The spatial structure is estimated by the change of the entanglement as a function of the location of the LSB, while the partition for the entanglement is placed at the boundary. This differs from the usual way16 where an entanglement is studied with placing the entanglement partition in the bulk.
The boundary-bulk entanglement will be experimentally accessible. As in Eq. (3), it may have a simple relation with a boundary observable, when the entanglement has a simple form like Kondo singlets near a fixed point of boundary criticalities. Such a simple relation between an entanglement and an observable is rare. It is another usefulness of the boundary-bulk entanglement.
We anticipate that the boundary-bulk entanglement is an essential aspect of boundary criticalities and related effects such as Kondo lattices and heavy fermions50,51,52.
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We thank Frederic Pierre and Jan von Delft for useful discussions. This work is supported by Korea NRF via the SRC Center for Quantum Coherence in Condensed Matter (Grant No. 2016R1A5A1008184 and RS-2023-00207732) and Grant No. 2023R1A2C2003430. D.K. acknowledges support by Korea NRF via Basic Science Research Program for Ph.D. students (2022R1A6A3A13062095).
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Shim, J., Kim, D. & Sim, HS. Hierarchical entanglement shells of multichannel Kondo clouds. Nat Commun 14, 3521 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39234-6
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39234-6
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