The role of magnetic anisotropy in the Kondo effect

Nature Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 847-850

  Otte, Alexander F ^a,b   Ternes, Markus ^a   Von Bergmann, Kirsten ^a,c   Loth, Sebastian ^a,d   Brune, Harald ^a,e   Lutz, Christopher P ^a   Hirjibehedin, Cyrus F ^a,f   Heinrich, Andreas J ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e EPFL   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; GROUND STATE; KONDO EFFECT; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MAGNETOCRYSTALLINE ANISOTROPY; RESONANCE;

ATOMIC ENVIRONMENT; CONDUCTION ELECTRONS; CORRELATED ELECTRON SYSTEMS; GROUND STATE LEVELS; KONDO RESONANCES; KONDO SCREENING; LOCALIZED MAGNETIC MOMENTS; RESONANCE PEAK;

MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY;

EID: 55549087872     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1072     Document Type: Article

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