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The Kondo effect is a key many-body phenomenon in condensed matter physics. It concerns the interaction between a localised spin and free electrons. Discovered in metals containing small amounts of magnetic impurities, it is now a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 S. Sasaki , S. De Franceschi , J. M. Elzerman , W. G. van der Wiel , M. Eto , S. Tarucha , L. P. Kouwenhoven

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

The Kondo effect involves the formation of a spin singlet by a magnetic impurity and conduction electrons. It is characterized by a low temperature scale, the Kondo temperature, $T_K$, and an associated long length scale, $\xi_K = \hbar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-09 Ian Affleck

The screening of magnetic moments in metals, the Kondo effect, is found to be quenched with a finite probability in the presence of nonmagnetic disorder. Numerical results for a disordered electron system show that the distribution of Kondo…

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

A dilute concentration of magnetic impurities can dramatically affect the transport properties of an otherwise pure metal. This phenomenon, known as the Kondo effect, originates from the interactions of individual magnetic impurities with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Grobis , I. G. Rau , R. M. Potok , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

We study the effect of a pure spin current on the Kondo singlet in a diluted magnetic alloy using non-local lateral spin valve structures with highly spin polarized Co2FeSi electrodes. Temperature dependence of the non-local spin signals…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-01 K. Hamaya , T. Kurokawa , S. Oki , S. Yamada , T. Kanashima , T. Taniyama

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

A recent work by Zhao et al. [1] reports the realization of a synthetic Kondo lattice in a gate-tunable Moir\'e TMD bilayer system. The observation of a Kondo lattice is supported by a plateau (or dip, depending on filling) in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-14 Prathyush P. Poduval , Katharina Laubscher , Sankar Das Sarma

We study Kondo physics of a spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ impurity in electronic matter with strong spin-orbit interaction, which can be realized by depositing magnetic adatoms on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator. We show that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-10 L. Isaev , G. Ortiz , I. Vekhter

Recently, a series of noncentrosymmetric superconductors has been a subject of considerable interest since the discovery of superconductivity in CePt_3Si. In noncentrosymmetric materials, the degeneracy of bands is lifted in the presence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-29 Takashi Yanagisawa

We analyze the Kondo effect of a magnetic impurity attached to an ultrasmall metallic wire using the density matrix renormalization group. The spatial spin correlation function and the impurity spectral density are computed for system sizes…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Hand , J. Kroha , H. Monien

Recently, for spin $S=5/2$ impurities quite different size dependence of the Kondo contribution to the resistivity was found experimentally than for S=2. Therefore previous calculation about the effect of the spin-orbit-induced magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 O. Újsághy , A. Zawadowski

We study here the role randomly-placed non-magnetic scatterers play on the Kondo effect. We show that spin relaxation effects (with time $\tau_s^o$)in the vertex corrections to the Kondo self-energy lead to an exact cancellation of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Ivar Martin , Yi Wan , Philip Phillips

The magnetic field dependence of the average spin of a localized electron coupled to conduction electrons with an antiferromagnetic exchange interaction is found for the ground state. In the magnetic field range $\mu H\sim 0.5 T_c$ ($T_c$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Yu. N. Ovchinnikov , A. M. Dyugaev

Based on the experimental observation, that only the close vicinity of a magnetic impurity at metal surfaces determines its Kondo behaviour, we introduce a simple model which explains the Kondo temperatures observed for cobalt adatoms at…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Wahl , L. Diekhöner , M. A. Schneider , L. Vitali , G. Wittich , K. Kern

We have studied the Kondo effect of a spin-1/2 impurity coupled to a two-dimensional altermagnet host material. To attain the low-temperature many-body Kondo physics of the system, we have performed a numerical renormalization group…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-04-10 G. S. Diniz , E. Vernek

An argument is given showing that Coulomb attraction between conduction electrons and impurity ions in a dilute magnetic alloy (DMA) can be disregarded, provided the system's inverse temperature beta is replaced by an effective inverse…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jan Mackowiak

In ordinary metals, antiferromagnetic exchange between conduction electrons and a magnetic impurity leads to screening of the impurity spin below the Kondo temperature, $T_K$. In systems such as semimetals, small-gap semiconductors and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-08-29 L. S. Borkowski

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 consider the spatial spin correlations around a partially screened spin-1 magnetic moment in a metal exhibiting the underscreened Kondo effect. We find that the underscreening of the impurity spin results in spatial spin correlations…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-04-03 L. Borda , M. Garst , J. Kroha