Surface anisotropy and the Kondo effect in restricted geometry (invited)
Surface anisotropy and the Kondo effect in restricted geometry (invited)
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受限几何中的表面各向异性和近藤效应(特邀)
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发表时间:
2000
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通讯作者:
A. Zawadowski
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作者:
O. Ujsághy;L. Borda;A. Zawadowski
In recent years, several groups have demonstrated experimentally that in thin films the Kondo effect has a smaller amplitude but roughly the same Kondo temperature compared to the bulk values. We have developed a theory of surface anisotropy proportional to KdSz2, where Sz is the component of the impurity spin perpendicular to the surface and Kd is an amplitude which is proportional to the inverse of the distance measured from the surface. The anisotropy is due to the fact that conduction electrons interact not only with the magnetic impurity by the exchange interaction, but also with the host atoms by the spin-orbit interaction, which allows the impurity spin to get information about the shape of the sample. Near the surface of the sample and at low temperature, the spin degrees of freedom freeze in the singlet ground state for spin S=2 so that the impurities at the surface cannot contribute to the Kondo anomaly, in contrast to the case S=5/2 where the ground state is degenerate. The theory of the surfac...