Crystalline defects can modify quantum interactions in solids, causing unintuitive, even favourable, properties such as quantum Hall effect or superconducting vortex pinning. Here we present another example of this notion - an unexpected unidirectional Kondo scattering in single crystals of 2H-NbS2. This manifests as a pronounced low-temperature enhancement in the out-of-plane resistivity and thermopower below 40 K, hidden for the in-plane charge transport. The anomaly can be suppressed by the c-axis-oriented magnetic field, but is unaffected by field applied along the planes. The magnetic moments originate from layers of 1T-NbS2, which inevitably form during the growth, undergoing a charge-density-wave reconstruction with each superlattice cell (David-star-shaped cluster of Nb atoms) hosting a localised spin. Our results demonstrate the unique and highly anisotropic response of a spontaneously formed Kondo lattice heterostructure, intercalated in a layered conductor.
@article{arxiv.2104.09147,
title = {Unidirectional Kondo scattering in layered NbS2},
author = {Edoardo Martino and Carsten Putzke and Markus König and Philip Moll and Helmuth Berger and David LeBoeuf and Maxime Leroux and Cyril Proust and Ana Akrap and Holm Kirmse and Christoph Koch and ShengNan Zhang and QuanSheng Wu and Oleg V. Yazyev and László Forró and Konstantin Semeniuk},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.09147},
year = {2021}
}
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44 pages, including the article, 5 figures, and Supplementary Information (6 notes, 9 figures, and 1 table)