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The Kondo effect is a prototypical quantum phenomenon arising from the interaction between localized electrons in a magnetic impurity and itinerant electrons in a metallic host. Although it has served as the testing ground for quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-21 Tianyu Zhu , Linqing Peng , Huanchen Zhai , Zhi-Hao Cui , Runze Chi , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

Nonmagnetic disorder is shown to quench the screening of magnetic moments in metals, the Kondo effect. The probability that a magnetic moment remains free down to zero temperature is found to increase with disorder strength. Experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Stefan Kettemann , Eduardo R. Mucciolo

Magnetic impurity effects on metallic carbon nanotubes are studied theoretically. The resolvent method for the multi channel Kondo effect is applied to the band structure of the kp perturbation hamiltonian in the limit of the infinite…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 Kikuo Harigaya

We study the Kondo effect generated by a single magnetic impurity embedded in an ultrasmall metallic grain, to be called a ``Kondo box''. We find that the Kondo resonance is strongly affected when the mean level spacing in the grain becomes…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Wolfgang B. Thimm , Johann Kroha , Jan von Delft

The effective interaction between magnetic impurities in metals that can lead to various magnetic ground states often competes with a tendency for electrons near impurities to screen the local moment (Kondo effect). The simplest system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. J. Craig , J. M. Taylor , E. A. Lester , C. M. Marcus , M. P. Hanson , A. C. Gossard

The Kondo effect arises from many-body interactions between localized magnetic impurities and conduction electrons, affecting electronic properties at low temperatures. In this study, we investigate the Kondo effect within a two-dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-30 T. O. Puel , M. A. Manya , G. S. Diniz , E. Vernek , G. B. Martins

Recent experimental advances in scanning tunneling microscopy make the measurement of the conductance spectra of isolated and magnetically coupled atoms on nonmagnetic substrates possible. Notably these spectra are characterized by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Aaron Hurley , Nadjib Baadji , Stefano Sanvito

We demonstrate that in a single molecule magnet (SMM) strongly coupled to electrodes the Kondo effect involves all magnetic excitations. This Kondo effect is induced by the quantum tunneling of the magnetic moment (QTM). Importantly, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Romeike , M. R. Wegewijs , W. Hofstetter , H. Schoeller

We study the interplay of the Kondo effect and spin-polarized tunneling in a class of systems exhibiting uniaxial magnetic anisotropy, such as magnetic molecules, magnetic adatoms, or quantum dots coupled to a single localized magnetic…

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

We study the Kondo effect in a model system of a quantum dot embedded in an Aharanov-Bohm ring connected to two leads. By transforming to the scattering basis of the direct inter-lead tunneling, we are able to describe precisely how the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-15 Justin Malecki , Ian Affleck

The effects of finite temperature in transport through nanoscopic systems exhibiting uniaxial magnetic anisotropy D, such as molecular magnets, adatoms, or quantum dots side-coupled to a large spin are analyzed in the Kondo regime. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Maciej Misiorny , Ireneusz Weymann , Józef Barnaś

We report manipulation of a Kondo resonance originated from the spin-electron interactions between a two-dimensional molecular assembly of TBrPP-Co molecules and a Cu(111) surface at 4.6 K using a low temperature scanning tunneling…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 Violeta Iancu , Aparna Deshpande , Saw-Wai Hla*

The Kondo effect, deriving from a local magnetic impurity mediating electron-electron interactions, constitutes a flourishing basis for understanding a large variety of intricate many-body problems. Its experimental implementation in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-29 C. Piquard , P. Glidic , C. Han , A. Aassime , A. Cavanna , U. Gennser , Y. Meir , E. Sela , A. Anthore , F. Pierre

We study the interplay between Coulomb blockade and the Kondo effect in quantum dots. We use a self-consistent scheme which describes mesoscopic devices in terms of a collective phase variable (slave rotor) and quasiparticle degrees of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Florens , P. San Jose , F. Guinea , A. Georges

We present a general description of low temperature transport through a quantum dot with any number of electrons at filling factor $1<\nu <2$. We provide a general description of a novel Kondo effect which is turned on by application of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Tejedor , L. Martin-Moreno

The Kondo effect may develop in those cases where there are non-commuting operators describing the interaction between the conduction electrons and impurities or defects with internal degrees of freedom. This interaction may involve spin or…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-24 O. Újsághy , G. Zaránd , A. Zawadowski

The effect of a magnetic field on the spectral density of a $\rm{S=1/2}$ Kondo impurity is investigated at zero and finite temperatures by using Wilson's numerical renormalization group method. A splitting of the total spectral density is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 T. A. Costi

The electrical resistivity including the Kondo resistivity increase at low temperature is calculated for thin films of dilute magnetic alloys. Assuming that in the non-magnetic host the spin-orbit interaction is strong like in Au and Cu,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-30 O. Ujsaghy , A. Zawadowski

In a metal, a magnetic impurity is fully screened by the conduction electrons at low temperature. In contrast, impurity moments coupled to spin-1 bulk bosons, such as triplet excitations in paramagnets, are only partially screened, even at…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Serge Florens , Lars Fritz , Matthias Vojta

The tunneling conductance is calculated as a function of the gate voltage in wide temperature range for the single quantum dot systems with Coulomb interaction. We assume that two orbitals are active for the tunneling process. We show that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Wataru Izumida , Osamu Sakai , Yukihiro Shimizu