Bäuerle Christopher, Mallet François, Schopfer Félicien, Mailly Dominique, Eska Georg, Saminadayar Laurent
Center for Low Temperature Research, CRTBT-CNRS, BP 166 X, Grenoble, France.
Phys Rev Lett. 2005 Dec 31;95(26):266805. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.266805. Epub 2005 Dec 23.
We present measurements of the phase coherence time taupsi in quasi-one-dimensional Au/Fe Kondo wires and compare the temperature dependence taupsi of with a recent theory of inelastic scattering from magnetic impurities [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 107204 (2004)10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.107204]. A very good agreement is obtained for temperatures down to 0.2T(K). Below the Kondo temperature T(K), the inverse of the phase coherence time varies linearly with temperature over almost one decade in temperature.