Inducing Kondo screening of vacancy magnetic moments in graphene with gating and local curvature

Yuhang Jiang; Po-Wei Lo; Daniel May; Guohong Li; Guang-Yu Guo; Frithjof B. Anders; Takashi Taniguchi; Kenji Watanabe; Jinhai Mao; Eva Y. Andrei

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-04812-6

Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Inducing Kondo screening of vacancy magnetic moments in graphene with gating and local curvature

Yuhang Jiang,
Po-Wei Lo,
Daniel May,
Guohong Li,
Guang-Yu Guo,
Frithjof B. Anders,
Takashi Taniguchi,
Kenji Watanabe,
Jinhai Mao,
Eva Y. Andrei

Affiliations

Yuhang Jiang: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University
Po-Wei Lo: Department of Physics, National Taiwan University
Daniel May: Theoretische Physik 2, Technische Universität Dortmund
Guohong Li: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University
Guang-Yu Guo: Department of Physics, National Taiwan University
Frithjof B. Anders: Theoretische Physik 2, Technische Universität Dortmund
Takashi Taniguchi: Advanced Materials Laboratory, National Institute for Materials Science
Kenji Watanabe: Advanced Materials Laboratory, National Institute for Materials Science
Jinhai Mao: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University
Eva Y. Andrei: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04812-6
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Observing and tuning the Kondo effect in graphene is experimentally challenging. Here, the authors identify the spectroscopic signature of Kondo screening in graphene, along with a quantum phase transition between screened and unscreened phases of vacancy magnetic moments.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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