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Kondo effect

Electron spin finds a fresh excitation

The Kondo effect — the screening of an impurity spin by conduction electrons — is a fundamental many-body effect. However, recent experiments combined with simulations have caused a long-standing model system for the single-atom Kondo effect to fail.

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Fig. 1: Kondo versus spinaron picture in single-atom scanning tunnelling microscopy experiments.

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Kröger, J., Uchihashi, T. Electron spin finds a fresh excitation. Nat. Phys. 20, 4–5 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-023-02265-3

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