Nature Communications (Oct 2021)

Kondo effect and spin–orbit coupling in graphene quantum dots

  • Annika Kurzmann,
  • Yaakov Kleeorin,
  • Chuyao Tong,
  • Rebekka Garreis,
  • Angelika Knothe,
  • Marius Eich,
  • Christopher Mittag,
  • Carolin Gold,
  • Folkert Kornelis de Vries,
  • Kenji Watanabe,
  • Takashi Taniguchi,
  • Vladimir Fal’ko,
  • Yigal Meir,
  • Thomas Ihn,
  • Klaus Ensslin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26149-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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The Kondo effect has been observed in a variety of systems, including carbon nanotube quantum dots and graphene in the presence of impurities. Here, the authors report the observation of the Kondo effect in bilayer graphene quantum dots and study its interplay with weak spin-orbit coupling.