Charge carrier relaxation dynamics in the one-dimensional Kondo lattice model

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Main Authors: Perez-Romero, Arturo, Schwarm, Mica, Heidrich-Meisner, Fabian
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author Perez-Romero, Arturo
Schwarm, Mica
Heidrich-Meisner, Fabian
author_facet Perez-Romero, Arturo
Schwarm, Mica
Heidrich-Meisner, Fabian
contents A generic question in the field of ultrafast dynamics is concerned with the relaxation dynamics and the subsequent thermalization of optically excited charge carriers. Among several possible relaxation channels available in a solid-state system, we focus on the coupling to magnetic excitations. In this paper, we study the real-time dynamics of a paradigmatic model, the Kondo lattice model in one dimension. We conduct a comprehensive study of the relaxation processes by evaluating the spin polarization of the conduction electron, the local spin-spin correlation between localized and conduction electrons, and the electronic momentum distribution. While in the well-studied cases of one or two charge carriers in a ferromagnetic background, no thermalization occurs, we demonstrate that the stationary state is compatible with thermalization if either the electronic filling is finite or the magnetic background is in the singlet sector. Our real-time simulations using the time-dependent Lanczos method are corroborated by a direct comparison with finite-temperature expectation values and an analysis of the spectrum in terms of the gap ratio.
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spellingShingle Charge carrier relaxation dynamics in the one-dimensional Kondo lattice model
Perez-Romero, Arturo
Schwarm, Mica
Heidrich-Meisner, Fabian
Strongly Correlated Electrons
A generic question in the field of ultrafast dynamics is concerned with the relaxation dynamics and the subsequent thermalization of optically excited charge carriers. Among several possible relaxation channels available in a solid-state system, we focus on the coupling to magnetic excitations. In this paper, we study the real-time dynamics of a paradigmatic model, the Kondo lattice model in one dimension. We conduct a comprehensive study of the relaxation processes by evaluating the spin polarization of the conduction electron, the local spin-spin correlation between localized and conduction electrons, and the electronic momentum distribution. While in the well-studied cases of one or two charge carriers in a ferromagnetic background, no thermalization occurs, we demonstrate that the stationary state is compatible with thermalization if either the electronic filling is finite or the magnetic background is in the singlet sector. Our real-time simulations using the time-dependent Lanczos method are corroborated by a direct comparison with finite-temperature expectation values and an analysis of the spectrum in terms of the gap ratio.
title Charge carrier relaxation dynamics in the one-dimensional Kondo lattice model
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.21539