Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
1999-12-14
Phys. Rev. B 61, 9036 (2000)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
12 pages, 9 figures; to appear in Phys. Rev. B
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.61.9036
A comprehensive theory is presented for the voltage, temperature, and spatial dependence of the tunneling current between a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) tip and a metallic surface with an individual magnetic adatom. Modeling the adatom by a nondegenerate Anderson impurity, a general expression is derived for a weak tunneling current in terms of the dressed impurity Green function, the impurity-free surface Green function, and the tunneling matrix elements. This generalizes Fano's analysis to the interacting case. The differential-conductance lineshapes seen in recent STM experiments with the tip directly over the magnetic adatom are reproduced within our model, as is the rapid decay, \sim 10\AA, of the low-bias structure as one moves the tip away from the adatom. With our simple model for the electronic structure of the surface, there is no dip in the differential conductance at approximately one lattice spacing from the magnetic adatom, but rather we see a resonant enhancement. The formalism for tunneling into small clusters of magnetic adatoms is developed.
Hershfield Selman
Schiller Avraham
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