Heersche H B, de Groot Z, Folk J A, Kouwenhoven L P, van der Zant H S J, Houck A A, Labaziewicz J, Chuang I L
Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Lorentzweg 1, 2628 CJ Delft, The Netherlands.
Phys Rev Lett. 2006 Jan 13;96(1):017205. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.017205. Epub 2006 Jan 10.
We measure transport through gold grain quantum dots fabricated using electromigration, with magnetic impurities in the leads. A Kondo interaction is observed between dot and leads, but the presence of magnetic impurities results in a gate-dependent zero-bias conductance peak that is split due to a RKKY interaction between the spin of the dot and the static spins of the impurities. A magnetic field restores the single Kondo peak in the case of an antiferromagnetic RKKY interaction. This system provides a new platform to study Kondo and RKKY interactions in metals at the level of a single spin.
我们测量了通过使用电迁移制造的金颗粒量子点的输运,其中引线中存在磁性杂质。在量子点和引线之间观察到了近藤相互作用,但磁性杂质的存在导致了一个与栅极有关的零偏置电导峰,由于量子点自旋与杂质静态自旋之间的RKKY相互作用,该峰发生了分裂。在反铁磁RKKY相互作用的情况下,磁场会恢复单个近藤峰。该系统为在单自旋水平上研究金属中的近藤和RKKY相互作用提供了一个新平台。