Kondo effect in the presence of magnetic impurities.

نویسندگان

  • H B Heersche
  • Z de Groot
  • J A Folk
  • L P Kouwenhoven
  • H S J van der Zant
  • A A Houck
  • J Labaziewicz
  • I L Chuang
چکیده

We measure transport through gold grain quantum dots fabricated using electromigration, with magnetic impurities in the leads. A Kondo interaction is observed between dot and leads, but the presence of magnetic impurities results in a gate-dependent zero-bias conductance peak that is split due to a RKKY interaction between the spin of the dot and the static spins of the impurities. A magnetic field restores the single Kondo peak in the case of an antiferromagnetic RKKY interaction. This system provides a new platform to study Kondo and RKKY interactions in metals at the level of a single spin.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Physical review letters

دوره 96 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2006