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          "markdown": "Declared local multiplet, bath channels, and positive charge gaps",
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          "markdown": "Curie susceptibility and moment-sector probability",
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          "markdown": "Mixed-valence charge fluctuations are order one or the bath is not the assumed low-energy continuum",
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          "markdown": "Spectral sum rule, causality, bandwidth, and bath normalization",
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          "markdown": "Claimed feature moves or loses weight under an admissible bath reconstruction",
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          "markdown": "Schrieffer–Wolff Kondo model",
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          "links": []
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          "markdown": "Projection onto a separated moment multiplet",
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          "markdown": "$\\Gamma/E_\\pm\\ll1$ and cutoff below both charge gaps",
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          "markdown": "Mixed valence or an omitted nearby multiplet invalidates the projection",
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          "markdown": "Perturbative Kondo scaling",
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          "markdown": "Antiferromagnetic exchange and metallic bath convention",
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          "markdown": "Finite size, temperature, pseudogap, field, or superconducting gap stops the flow first",
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          "links": []
        }
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      "key": "exactly-screened-strong-coupling",
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          "markdown": "Exactly screened strong coupling",
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          "links": []
        },
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          "markdown": "Conserved metallic channels with $k=2S$",
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          "markdown": "Phase shift, Friedel count, vanishing residual entropy, and analytic local-Fermi-liquid corrections",
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          "markdown": "Phase branch, displaced-charge and Luttinger hypotheses, irrelevant-operator regime, and contact geometry",
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        },
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          "markdown": "Under- or overscreening or a nonmetallic bath changes the fixed point; asymmetry shifts the phase and can permit a linear spectral term",
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        }
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          "markdown": "Overscreened Kondo",
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          "links": []
        },
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          "markdown": "Channel-symmetric $k>2S$ exchange",
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        },
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          "markdown": "Residual entropy and nonanalytic boundary exponents",
          "math": [],
          "links": []
        },
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          "markdown": "Channel anisotropy, field, spin-assisted interchannel exchange, finite size, and crossover scale controlled",
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        },
        "decisive_failure_test_or_ceiling": {
          "markdown": "A relevant perturbation drives the system to a Fermi liquid before the claimed window",
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          "links": []
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          "markdown": "NRG result",
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          "links": []
        },
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          "markdown": "Logarithmic discretization and iterated truncated chain",
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          "links": []
        },
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          "markdown": "Thermodynamics and real-frequency spectra",
          "math": [],
          "links": []
        },
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          "markdown": "Discretization, kept-state, symmetry, broadening, sum-rule, and exact-limit convergence",
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        },
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          "markdown": "Result drifts beyond tolerance under $\\Lambda$, $z$ shift, truncation, or broadening changes",
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      "key": "ct-qmc-result",
      "row_id": "impurity-claim-test-matrix--ct-qmc-result",
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          "markdown": "CT-QMC result",
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          "links": []
        },
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          "markdown": "Specified imaginary-time impurity action",
          "math": [],
          "links": []
        },
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          "markdown": "Matsubara correlators and thermodynamics",
          "math": [],
          "links": []
        },
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          "markdown": "Expansion order, sampling, autocorrelation, covariance, tail, stabilization, and sign or phase checks",
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        },
        "decisive_failure_test_or_ceiling": {
          "markdown": "Analytic continuation is presented as unique or errors fail replica and sum-rule tests",
          "math": [],
          "links": []
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "key": "quantum-dot-spectroscopy",
      "row_id": "impurity-claim-test-matrix--quantum-dot-spectroscopy",
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        "claim_or_regime": {
          "markdown": "Quantum-dot spectroscopy",
          "math": [],
          "links": []
        },
        "fixed_point_or_defining_input": {
          "markdown": "Interacting region plus lead and bias model",
          "math": [],
          "links": []
        },
        "observable": {
          "markdown": "Conductance matrix, temperature and field scaling, and noise",
          "math": [],
          "links": []
        },
        "necessary_control": {
          "markdown": "Coupling asymmetry, voltage drop, heating, resolution, and nonequilibrium treatment",
          "math": [],
          "links": []
        },
        "decisive_failure_test_or_ceiling": {
          "markdown": "A dot level, singlet–doublet crossing, or lead artifact fits the same sweeps",
          "math": [],
          "links": []
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "key": "orthogonality-or-x-ray-edge",
      "row_id": "impurity-claim-test-matrix--orthogonality-or-x-ray-edge",
      "cells": {
        "claim_or_regime": {
          "markdown": "Orthogonality or X-ray edge",
          "math": [],
          "links": []
        },
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          "markdown": "Sudden local quench and initial/final phase shifts",
          "math": [],
          "links": []
        },
        "observable": {
          "markdown": "Overlap exponent and threshold power law",
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          "links": []
        },
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          "markdown": "Channel count, phase-shift branch, core-hole lifetime, and finite-temperature rounding",
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          "links": []
        },
        "decisive_failure_test_or_ceiling": {
          "markdown": "Bound-state or excitonic contribution is omitted or no asymptotic scaling window exists",
          "math": [],
          "links": []
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "key": "mobile-polaron",
      "row_id": "impurity-claim-test-matrix--mobile-polaron",
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        "claim_or_regime": {
          "markdown": "Mobile polaron",
          "math": [],
          "links": []
        },
        "fixed_point_or_defining_input": {
          "markdown": "Matched impurity–medium scattering and total momentum",
          "math": [],
          "links": []
        },
        "observable": {
          "markdown": "Pole energy, residue, width, effective mass, molecule and continuum thresholds",
          "math": [],
          "links": []
        },
        "necessary_control": {
          "markdown": "Density/range parameters, recoil, branch preparation, and spectral sum rule",
          "math": [],
          "links": []
        },
        "decisive_failure_test_or_ceiling": {
          "markdown": "Peak lacks pole scaling, decays into continuum, or molecule and final-state effects remain viable",
          "math": [],
          "links": []
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "key": "kondo-lattice-competition",
      "row_id": "impurity-claim-test-matrix--kondo-lattice-competition",
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          "markdown": "Kondo-lattice competition",
          "math": [],
          "links": []
        },
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          "markdown": "Local moments, conduction band, $J_K$, and intersite exchange",
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              "tex": "J_K"
            }
          ],
          "links": []
        },
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          "markdown": "Magnetic ordering, coherence scale, and reconstructed bands",
          "math": [],
          "links": []
        },
        "necessary_control": {
          "markdown": "Frustration, filling, dimensionality, and self-consistent lattice dynamics",
          "math": [],
          "links": []
        },
        "decisive_failure_test_or_ceiling": {
          "markdown": "Doniach scale crossing alone is used as a phase boundary or single-impurity $T_K$ is equated with coherence",
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              "tex": "T_K"
            }
          ],
          "links": []
        }
      }
    },
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      "key": "heavy-fermi-liquid",
      "row_id": "impurity-claim-test-matrix--heavy-fermi-liquid",
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          "markdown": "Heavy Fermi liquid",
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          "links": []
        },
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          "markdown": "Coherent hybridization and unbroken translation symmetry",
          "math": [],
          "links": []
        },
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          "links": []
        },
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          "markdown": "Constraint fluctuations, unit cell, multiband structure, and Luttinger hypotheses",
          "math": [],
          "links": []
        },
        "decisive_failure_test_or_ceiling": {
          "markdown": "Hybridization mean field fits a band without thermodynamic coherence or correct global counting",
          "math": [],
          "links": []
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "key": "kondo-breakdown-or-local-criticality",
      "row_id": "impurity-claim-test-matrix--kondo-breakdown-or-local-criticality",
      "cells": {
        "claim_or_regime": {
          "markdown": "Kondo breakdown or local criticality",
          "math": [],
          "links": []
        },
        "fixed_point_or_defining_input": {
          "markdown": "Critical loss of Kondo coherence in a specified lattice model",
          "math": [],
          "links": []
        },
        "observable": {
          "markdown": "Joint crossover scale, Fermi-volume-sensitive response, dynamics, and thermodynamics",
          "math": [],
          "links": []
        },
        "necessary_control": {
          "markdown": "Common tuning variable, width extrapolation, disorder and resolution, held-out predictions",
          "math": [],
          "links": []
        },
        "decisive_failure_test_or_ceiling": {
          "markdown": "Spin-density-wave, Lifshitz, valence, multiband, or disorder model explains the same combined data",
          "math": [],
          "links": []
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "references": [
    {
      "id": "ref-49811710d684a5bf",
      "markdown": "Schrieffer, J. R., and Wolff, P. A. (1966). “Relation between the Anderson and Kondo Hamiltonians.” *Physical Review* **149**, 491–492. [doi:10.1103/PhysRev.149.491](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.149.491).",
      "urls": [
        "https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.149.491"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "reference_scope": "The reference catalog reproduces the canonical chapter bibliography. Cell links are associated with references only when their resolved URL matches; uncited chapter references are not asserted as claim-specific support."
}
