A Tunable Two-impurity Kondo system in an atomic point contact

Abstract

Two magnetic atoms, one attached to the tip of a Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) and one adsorbed on a metal surface, each constituting a Kondo system, have been proposed as one of the simplest conceivable systems potentially exhibiting quantum critical behaviour. We have succeeded in implementing this concept experimentally for cobalt dimers clamped between an STM tip and a gold surface. Control of the tip-sample distance with sub-picometer resolution allows us to tune the interaction between the two cobalt atoms with unprecedented precision. Electronic transport measurements on this two-impurity Kondo system reveal a rich physical scenario which is governed by a crossover from local Kondo screening to non-local singlet formation due to antiferromagnetic coupling as a function of separation of the cobalt atoms.

22 pages, 5 figures

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• The numerical renormalization group method for quantum impurity systems
• Exchange interaction between single magnetic adatoms
• Quantum criticality in a double quantum-dot system
• Kondo effect in single atom contacts: the importance of the atomic geometry
• Signature of quantum criticality in photoemission spectroscopy at elevated temperature

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