A tunable two-impurity Kondo system in an atomic point contact

Nature Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 901-906

  Bork, Jakob ^a,b   Zhang, Yong Hui ^a,c   Diekhöner, Lars ^b   Borda, László ^d,e   Simon, Pascal ^f   Kroha, Johann ^e   Wahl, Peter ^a   Kern, Klaus ^a,e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

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EID: 80555150691     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2076     Document Type: Article

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