Kondo Effect in a Spin-3/2 Fermi Gas

Abstract

We investigate the Kondo effect of a spin-3/2 Fermi gas and give a detailed calculation of the impurity resistance and ground state energy based on the s-d exchange model. It is found that the impurity resistance increases logarithmically with the decrease of temperature in the case of antiferromagnetic coupling similar to the spin-1/2 system but has a larger resistance minimum value due to the increase of spin scattering channels. In the case of antiferromagnetic interaction, the ground state is still the Kondo singlet state while the septuplet state has the lowest energy for ferromagnetic coupling. And with the same antiferromagnetic s-d coupling parameter, the energy of the Kondo singlet state is lower than spin-1/2, which indicates that the larger spin, the easier it is to enter the Kondo-screened phase. This provides some theoretical support for the realization of the Kondo effect with ultra-cold atoms.