Broken SU(4) symmetry in a Kondo-correlated carbon nanotube
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Daniel R. Schmid,1 Sergey Smirnov,2 Magdalena Margańska,2 Alois Dirnaichner,1,2 Peter L. Stiller,1 Milena Grifoni,2 Andreas K. Hüttel,1,* and Christoph Strunk1,† 1Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany 2Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany (Received 1 August 2014; revised manuscript received 2 March 2015; published 29 April 2015)
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