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We consider electron transport along a single-mode channel which is in contact, via tunnel junctions in its walls, with two quantum dots. Electron tunneling to and from the dots contributes to the electron backscattering, and thus modifies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hiroyuki Tamura , Leonid I. Glazman

This work is concerned with the theoretical description of the contrast, i.e., the apparent height difference between two lateral surface positions on constant current spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy (SP-STM) images. We propose…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-01-25 Krisztián Palotás

We theoretically show how the spin orientation of a single magnetic adatom can be controlled by spin polarized electrons in a scanning tunneling microscope configuration. The underlying physical mechanism is spin assisted inelastic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-11 F. Delgado , J. J. Palacios , J. Fernandez-Rossier

We propose a mechanism to use scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) for direct measurements of the two-electron singlet-triplet exchange splitting $J$ in diatomic molecular systems, unsing the coupling between the molecule and the substrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Fransson , A. V. Balatsky

Transport properties in the Kondo regime of a nanosystem displaying uniaxial magnetic anisotropy (such as a magnetic molecule, magnetic adatom or quantum dot coupled to a localized magnetic moment) are analyzed theoretically. In particular,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-06 Maciej Misiorny , Ireneusz Weymann , Jozef Barnas

We present studies of the Coulomb blockade and Kondo regimes of transport through a quantum dot connected to current leads through spin-polarizing quantum point contacts (QPCs). This structure, arising from the effect of lateral spin-orbit…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-12-21 Anh T. Ngo , Edson Vernek , Sergio E. Ulloa

We report measurements of the Kondo effect in a double quantum dot (DQD), where the orbital states act as pseudospin states whose degeneracy contributes to Kondo screening. Standard transport spectroscopy as a function of the bias voltage…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 S. Amasha , A. J. Keller , I. G. Rau , A. Carmi , J. A. Katine , H. Shtrikman , Y. Oreg , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

The Kondo insulator compound SmB6 has emerged as a strong candidate for the realization of a topologically nontrivial state in a strongly correlated system, a topological Kondo insulator, which can be a novel platform for investigating the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-03 Jehyun Kim , Chaun Jang , Xiangfeng Wang , Johnpierre Paglione , Seokmin Hong , Dohun Kim

The Kondo effect in the system consisting of a magnetic adatom on the graphene is studied. By using the non-equilibrium Green function method with the slave-boson mean field approximation, the local density of state (LDOS) and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Huai-Bin Zhuang , Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie

Based on a no-equilibrium STM model, we study Kondo resonance on a surface by self-consistent calculations. The shapes of tunneling spectra are dependent on the energy range of tunneling electrons. Our results show that both energy-cutoff…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Wei Fan

We investigate the nonequilibrum transport properties of a quantum dot when spin flip processes compete with the formation of a Kondo resonance in the presence of ferromagnetic leads. Based upon the Anderson Hamiltonian in the strongly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rosa Lopez , David Sanchez

We report on a fully nonequilibrium theory of the scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) through resonances induced by impurity atoms adsorbed on metal surfaces. The theory takes into account the effect of the tunneling current and finite bias…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Plihal , J. W. Gadzuk

We measured a spin polarization above a Pt (111) surface in the vicinity of a Co nanostripe by spin-polarized scanning tunneling spectroscopy. The spin polarization is exponentially decaying away from the Pt/Co interface and is detectable…

We measure the spin splitting in a magnetic field $B$ of localized states in single-electron transistors using a new method, inelastic spin-flip cotunneling. Because it involves only internal excitations, this technique gives the most…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Kogan , S. Amasha , D. Goldhaber-Gordon , G. Granger , M. A. Kastner , Hadas Shtrikman

We use co-tunneling spectroscopy to investigate spin-, orbital-, and spin-orbital Kondo transport in a strongly confined system of InAs double quantum dots (QDs) parallel-coupled to source and drain. In the one-electron transport regime,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 Heidi Potts , Martin Leijnse , Adam Burke , Malin Nilsson , Sebastian Lehmann , Kimberly A. Dick , Claes Thelander

We theoretically analyze a state-of-the-art experimental method based on a combination of electron spin resonance and scanning tunneling microscopy (ESR-STM), to directly probe the spin fluctuations in the Kondo effect. The Kondo impurity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Yinan Fang , Stefano Chesi , Mahn-Soo Choi

Several technical issues and challenges are identified and investigated for the planar tunneling spectroscopy of the topological Kondo insulator SmB$_6$. Contrasting behaviors of the tunnel junctions prepared in two different ways are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-27 L. Sun , D. -J. Kim , Z. Fisk , W. K. Park

The transport properties between ferromagnets and high-Tc superconductors are investigated in La0.67Sr0.33MnO3/YBa2Cu3O7-d (LSMO/YBCO)junctions in the geometry of cross-strip lines. The conductance spectra show zero-bias conductance peaks…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Sawa , S. Kashiwaya , H. Obara , H. Yamasaki , M. Koyanagi , N. Yoshida , Y. Tanaka

Kondo systems ranging from the single Kondo impurity to heavy fermion materials present us with a plethora of unconventional properties whose theoretical understanding is still one of the major open problems in condensed matter physics.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-27 Dirk K. Morr

We theoretically study the tunneling conductance of a junction consisting of a two-dimensional unconventional $p$-wave magnet (UPM) and a superconductor (SC) for various pairing symmetries. The zero bias conductance peaks arising from the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-17 Kazuki Maeda , Bo Lu , Keiji Yada , Yukio Tanaka