| Issue |
EPL
Volume 86, Number 5, June 2009
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| Article Number | 58004 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Interdisciplinary Physics and Related Areas of Science and Technology | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/86/58004 | |
| Published online | 23 June 2009 | |
Scanning tunneling spectroscopy of a magnetic atom on graphene in the Kondo regime
1
Beijing National Lab for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190, China
2
Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University - Stillwater, OK 74078, USA
Corresponding author: sunqf@aphy.iphy.ac.cn
Received:
11
March
2009
Accepted:
25
May
2009
The Kondo effect in the system consisting of a magnetic adatom on the graphene is studied. By using the non-equilibrium Green function method with the slave-boson mean-field approximation, the local density of state (LDOS) and the conductance are calculated. For a doped graphene, the Kondo phase is present at all time. Surprisingly, two kinds of Kondo regimes are revealed. But for the undoped graphene, the Kondo phase only exists if the adatom's energy level is beyond a critical value. The conductance is similar to the LDOS, thus, the Kondo peak in the LDOS can be observed with the scanning tunneling spectroscopy. In addition, in the presence of a direct coupling between the STM tip and the graphene, the conductance may be dramatically enhanced, depending on the coupling site.
PACS: 81.05.Uw – Carbon, diamond, graphite / 72.15.Qm – Scattering mechanisms and Kondo effect
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