Nature Communications (Aug 2016)

Blocking transport resonances via Kondo many-body entanglement in quantum dots

  • Michael Niklas,
  • Sergey Smirnov,
  • Davide Mantelli,
  • Magdalena Margańska,
  • Ngoc-Viet Nguyen,
  • Wolfgang Wernsdorfer,
  • Jean-Pierre Cleuziou,
  • Milena Grifoni

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12442
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The many-body Kondo effect manifests in low-temperature Coulomb blockaded quantum dots as a zero-bias conductance peak, which arises due to charge-fluctuation-driven transport. Here, the authors demonstrate a counterintuitive Kondo effect in which these conduction channels are blocked.