Ferromagnetic Kondo Effect at Nanocontacts

Details Ferromagnetic Kondo Effect at Nanocontacts Ferromagnetic Kondo Effect at Nanocontacts

2009-02-02

arxiv.org/abs/0902.0254v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

5 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

Magnetic impurities bridging nanocontacts and break junctions of nearly magnetic metals may lead to permanent moments, analogous to the giant moments well known in the bulk case. A numerical renormalization group (NRG) study shows that, contrary to mean field based expectations, a permanent moment never arises within an Anderson model, which invariably leads to strong Kondo screening. By including in the model an additional ferromagnetic exchange coupling between leads and impurity, the NRG may instead stabilize a permanent moment through a ferromagnetic Kondo effect. The resulting state is a rotationally invariant spin, which differs profoundly from mean field. A sign inversion of the zero-bias anomaly and other spectroscopic signatures of the switch from regular to ferromagnetic Kondo are outlined.

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