Modeling the Kondo effect of a magnetic atom adsorbed on graphene
Abstract
The Kondo effect due to a magnetic atom adsorbed on graphene is investigated using two theoretical approaches, including the non-equilibrium Green's function method within the slave-boson mean-field approximation and a newly developed tight-binding (TB) model with an effectively infinite Hubbard U term. Both methods reveal the presence of a Kondo peak in the local density of state (LDOS) of graphene near the Fermi level. A sharp Kondo peak is only observed in the odd-neighboring C sites of the C atom directly below the magnetic atom placed in top position. The peak intensity is found to decay quickly with respect to the distance between the C site and the magnetic atom. A theoretical model of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) of graphene is presented as a means to identify the manifestation of the Kondo effect via direct topographic STM measurements. STM simulations show that in the proximity of the magnetic atom, only the C atoms of one sublattice are visible at low bias potential and thus a triangular lattice can be seen, in agreement with recent experiments. Further away from the magnetic atom, the Kondo effect dies down and eventually both sublattices are visible, leading to the recovery of the hexagonal lattice.more »
- Authors:
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[1];
[2];
[3]
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, NY (United States)
- Univ. Federal do Piaui, Piaui (Brazil)
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, NY (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1524870
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- 2D Materials
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 6; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2053-1583
- Publisher:
- IOP Publishing
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; Kondo effect; graphene; magnetic impurity; tight-binding model; STM
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Liang, Liangbo, Costa Girão, Eduardo, and Meunier, Vincent. Modeling the Kondo effect of a magnetic atom adsorbed on graphene. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1088/2053-1583/ab2322.
Liang, Liangbo, Costa Girão, Eduardo, & Meunier, Vincent. Modeling the Kondo effect of a magnetic atom adsorbed on graphene. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/ab2322
Liang, Liangbo, Costa Girão, Eduardo, and Meunier, Vincent. Thu .
"Modeling the Kondo effect of a magnetic atom adsorbed on graphene". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/ab2322. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1524870.
@article{osti_1524870,
title = {Modeling the Kondo effect of a magnetic atom adsorbed on graphene},
author = {Liang, Liangbo and Costa Girão, Eduardo and Meunier, Vincent},
abstractNote = {The Kondo effect due to a magnetic atom adsorbed on graphene is investigated using two theoretical approaches, including the non-equilibrium Green's function method within the slave-boson mean-field approximation and a newly developed tight-binding (TB) model with an effectively infinite Hubbard U term. Both methods reveal the presence of a Kondo peak in the local density of state (LDOS) of graphene near the Fermi level. A sharp Kondo peak is only observed in the odd-neighboring C sites of the C atom directly below the magnetic atom placed in top position. The peak intensity is found to decay quickly with respect to the distance between the C site and the magnetic atom. A theoretical model of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) of graphene is presented as a means to identify the manifestation of the Kondo effect via direct topographic STM measurements. STM simulations show that in the proximity of the magnetic atom, only the C atoms of one sublattice are visible at low bias potential and thus a triangular lattice can be seen, in agreement with recent experiments. Further away from the magnetic atom, the Kondo effect dies down and eventually both sublattices are visible, leading to the recovery of the hexagonal lattice. Furthermore, this work not only provides a new TB method to study the Kondo effect in graphene, but also presents both scanning tunneling spectroscopy and microscopy fingerprints of the Kondo effect to facilitate its experimental verification.},
doi = {10.1088/2053-1583/ab2322},
journal = {2D Materials},
number = 3,
volume = 6,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jun 06 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Thu Jun 06 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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