1995/12/12 by Ian Affleck · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat #hep-th
published as Acta Phys.Polon.B26:1869-1932,1995 · 38 pages plus 27 epsf-embedded postscript figures. Lectures given at Summer School in Zakopane, Poland, June, 1995
arxiv created 1995/12/12 · arxiv updated 2011/04/15
Recently, a new approach, based on boundary conformal field theory, has been applied to a variety of quantum impurity problems in condensed matter and particle physics. A particularly enlightening example is the multi-channel Kondo problem. In this review some earlier approaches to the Kondo problem are discussed, the needed material on boundary conformal field theory is developed and then this new method is applied to the multi-channel Kondo problem.