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The importance of being entangled

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A renormalization group study of electric transport in nanocontacts reveals the importance of quantum correlations for achieving a startling ferromagnetic Kondo effect.

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Figure 1: Schematic view of a measurement setup to determine the conductance of a gold–nickel–gold nanocontact subjected to a d.c. voltage V.

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  1. Gerardo Ortiz is in the Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA. ortizg@indiana.edu,

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