Breakdown of Monotonic Impurity Entropy Flow in $\mathscr{PT}$-Symmetric Multichannel Kondo Systems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04083v2
• Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2026 06:21:36 GMT
• Title: Breakdown of Monotonic Impurity Entropy Flow in $\mathscr{PT}$-Symmetric Multichannel Kondo Systems
• Abstract summary: We study a non-Hermitian Kondo model consisting of a pair of spin-$frac12$ impurities coupled to $n$ conduction-electron channels.<n>The exact Bethe Ansatz solution exhibits four impurity phases: overscreened Kondo, zero mode, Yu--Shiba--Rusinov (YSR), and local moment.<n>We conjecture that RG irreversibility, and hence a generalized Affleck--Ludwig $g$-theorem, survives throughout the Kondo phase.
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• Abstract: We study a $\mathscr{PT}$-symmetric non-Hermitian multichannel Kondo model consisting of a pair of spin-$\frac12$ impurities coupled to $n$ conduction-electron channels through complex-conjugate Kondo couplings. The impurity renormalization-group (RG) flow is characterized by the Kondo scale $T_K$ and a dimensionless non-Hermiticity parameter $α$. As $α$ increases, the exact Bethe Ansatz solution exhibits four impurity phases: overscreened Kondo, zero mode, Yu--Shiba--Rusinov (YSR), and local moment. The Kondo, zero-mode, and local-moment phases are $\mathscr{PT}$-unbroken, whereas the YSR phase spontaneously breaks $\mathscr{PT}$ symmetry. Using a generalized thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz, we determine the impurity free energy and Affleck--Ludwig $g$-function throughout the $\mathscr{PT}$-unbroken phases. In the Kondo phase, the defect RG flow connects the ultraviolet and infrared conformal fixed points, with the impurity entropy flowing from $2\ln2$ to $2\ln\left[2\cos\left(\fracπ{n+2}\right)\right]$, in agreement with defect conformal field theory. In the zero-mode phase, zero-energy impurity strings reorganize the spectrum into multiple excitation towers, while in the local-moment phase, the RG flow becomes cyclic, returning to the unscreened local-moment fixed point. We conjecture that RG irreversibility, and hence a generalized Affleck--Ludwig $g$-theorem, survives throughout the Kondo phase. Our exact solution nevertheless shows that a real spectrum and defect entropies consistent with defect CFT do not guarantee RG irreversibility: the impurity entropy is non-monotonic in both the zero-mode and local-moment phases.

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