A “fermi-liquid” description of the Kondo problem at low temperatures

Abstract

We take as granted Anderson's statement that in the low-temperature limit the usual Kondos-d model evolves toward a fixed point in which the effective exchange coupling of the impurity with the conduction electrons is infinitely strong. The low-temperature properties (T«T ^K) are then described phenomenologically in the same spirit as the usual Landau theory of Fermi liquids. The specific heat, spin susceptibility, and resistivity are expressed in terms of a small number of numerical parameters. In the strong coupling case the latter may be obtained via perturbation theory; in the opposite weak coupling limit they must be fitted to Wilson's recent numerical results.