Thermodynamics in a split Hilbert space: Quantum impurity at the edge of the Heisenberg chain

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19334v1
• Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 18:00:02 GMT
• Title: Thermodynamics in a split Hilbert space: Quantum impurity at the edge of the Heisenberg chain
• Authors: Abay Zhakenov, Pradip Kattel, Natan Andrei,
• Abstract summary: We study the isotropic spin-$frac12$ Heisenberg chain with a single edge-coupled impurity of arbitrary exchange strength $J$.<n>For antiferromagnetic couplings, the impurity is screened by many-body excitations and the impurity entropy decreases monotonically.<n>For ferromagnetic couplings, the impurity remains unscreened with $S_mathrmimpto ln 2$ as $T to 0$ but exhibits shallow undershoots at intermediate scales.
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• Abstract: We study the isotropic spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ Heisenberg chain with a single edge-coupled impurity of arbitrary exchange strength $J$. The model exhibits four impurity phases. For antiferromagnetic couplings ($J>0$): a \textit{Kondo phase} at weak $J$, where the impurity is screened by many-body excitations and the impurity entropy decreases monotonically from $\ln 2$ at $T \to \infty$ to $0$ at $T\to 0$; and an \textit{antiferromagnetic bound-mode (ABM) phase} at strong $J$, where the impurity screened by an exponentially localized bound mode drives $S_{\mathrm{imp}}(T)$ nonmonotonically, with undershoots below zero at intermediate temperatures, while tending to $\ln 2$ as $T \to \infty$ and to $0$ as $T \to 0$. For ferromagnetic couplings ($J<0$): a local-moment (LM) phase at weak $|J|$, where the impurity remains unscreened with $S_{\mathrm{imp}}\to \ln 2$ as $T \to 0$ but exhibits shallow undershoots at intermediate scales; and a \textit{ferromagnetic bound-mode (FBM) phase} at strong $|J|$, where $S_{\mathrm{imp}}=\ln 2$ in both UV and IR limits, yet develops an intermediate-temperature undershoot. We provide an analytic understanding of this behavior, showing that the undershoots originate from the fractionalization of the Hilbert space into several towers of states: for antiferromagnetic couplings this occurs only at strong $J$, driven by boundary-localized bound modes, while for ferromagnetic couplings undershoots occur for all $J<0$, becoming deeper with increasing $|J|$ and vanishing as $J\to 0^{-}$. These bound modes screen the impurity. Incorporating the bound modes and edge states provides a complete analytic understanding of this phenomenon and yields closed expressions for the impurity contribution to free energy and entropy that are valid across all phases. These are checked and found to be in excellent agreement with tensor network and exact diagonalization results.

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