Kondo Resonance of a Co Atom Exchange Coupled to a Ferromagnetic Tip.

Choi, D-J; Guissart, S; Ormaza, M; Bachellier, N; Bengone, O; Simon, P; Limot, L · Nano Lett · 2016

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

The Kondo effect of a Co atom on Cu(100) was investigated with a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope using a monoatomically sharp nickel tip. Upon a tip-Co contact, the differential conductance spectra exhibit a spin-split asymmetric Kondo resonance. The computed ab initio value of the exchange coupling is too small to suppress the Kondo effect, but sufficiently large to produce the splitting observed. A quantitative analysis of the line shape using the numerical renormalization group technique indicates that the junction spin polarization is weak.