Kondo effect in single atom contacts: The importance of the atomic geometry

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 21, 2008, Pages

  Vitali, Lucia ^a   Ohmann, Robin ^a   Stepanow, Sebastian ^a,b   Gambardella, Pietro ^b,c   Tao, Kun ^d   Huang, Renzhong ^d   Stepanyuk, Valeri S ^d   Bruno, Patrick ^d,e   Kern, Klaus ^a,f  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b CATALAN INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY ICN2   (Spain)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

^e EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^f EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; POINT CONTACTS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; ATOMIC GEOMETRY; ENERGY POSITION; KONDO TEMPERATURES; SINGLE ATOM CONTACTS; SINGLE ATOM JUNCTIONS; SPIN-POLARIZED; TIP-SAMPLE DISTANCE;

ATOMS;

EID: 56849116787     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.216802     Document Type: Article

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