From tunneling to contact in a magnetic atom: the non-equilibrium Kondo effect

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العنوان: From tunneling to contact in a magnetic atom: the non-equilibrium Kondo effect
المؤلفون: Choi, Deung-Jang, Abufager, Paula, Limot, Laurent, Lorente, Nicolas
المصدر: The Journal of Chemical Physics 146, 092309 (2017)
سنة النشر: 2016
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
مصطلحات موضوعية: Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics, Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons
الوصف: A low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope was employed to study the differential conductance in an atomic junction formed by an adsorbed Co atom on a Cu(100) surface and a copper-covered tip. A zero-bias anomaly (ZBA) reveals spin scattering off the Co atom, which is assigned to a Kondo effect. The ZBA exhibits a characteristic asymmetric lineshape when electrons tunnel between tip and sample, while upon the tip-Co contact it symmetrizes and broadens. Through density functional theory calculations and the non-equilibrium non-crossing approximation we show that the lineshape broadening is mainly a consequence of the additional coupling to the tip, while non-equilibrium effects only modify the large-bias tails of the ZBA.
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1063/1.4972874
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1609.08955
رقم الانضمام: edsarx.1609.08955
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv