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arxiv 0910.3031 v5 pith:7MDGBA3F submitted 2009-10-16 cond-mat.str-el

Anderson Impurity in Helical Metal

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keywords impurityconductionspinelectronshelicalmetalandersonangular
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We use a trial wave function to study the spin-1/2 Kondo effect of a helical metal on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator. While the impurity spin is quenched by conduction electrons, the spin-spin correlation of the conduction electron and impurity is strongly anisotropic in both spin and spatial spaces. As a result of strong spin-orbit coupling, the out-of-plane component of the impurity spin is found to be fully screened by the orbital angular momentum of the conduction electrons.

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