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Universal Scaling in Non-equilibrium Transport Through a Single-Channel Kondo Dot

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-13 v2

Abstract

Scaling laws and universality play an important role in our understanding of critical phenomena and the Kondo effect. Here we present measurements of non-equilibrium transport through a single-channel Kondo quantum dot at low temperature and bias. We find that the low-energy Kondo conductance is consistent with universality between temperature and bias and characterized by a quadratic scaling exponent, as expected for the spin-1/2 Kondo effect. The non-equilibrium Kondo transport measurements are well-described by a universal scaling function with two scaling parameters.

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@article{arxiv.0710.3211,
  title  = {Universal Scaling in Non-equilibrium Transport Through a Single-Channel Kondo Dot},
  author = {M. Grobis and I. G. Rau and R. M. Potok and H. Shtrikman and D. Goldhaber-Gordon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.3211},
  year   = {2009}
}

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v2: improved introduction and theory-experiment comparsion