%0 Journal Article %T Potential scattering and the Kondo effect %A Valery I. Rupasov %J Physics %D 1998 %I arXiv %X We study a generalized Kondo model in which a spin-1/2 impurity is coupled to a conduction band by both s-d exchange and potential interactions. A strong potential scattering is shown to screen an exchange scattering, and the Kondo temperature of the system is decreased. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9812240v1