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Letter

Nature Physics 2, 460–464 (1 July 2006) | doi:10.1038/nphys340

Non-equilibrium singlet|[ndash]|triplet Kondo effect in carbon nanotubes

J. Paaske , A. Rosch , P. W|[ouml]|lfle , N. Mason , C. M. Marcus & J. Nyg|[aring]|rd

The Kondo effect is a many-body phenomenon arising due to conduction electrons scattering off a localized spin. Coherent spin-flip scattering off such a quantum impurity correlates the conduction electrons, and at low temperature this leads to a zero-bias conductance anomaly.