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Kondo Effect in the Presence of Magnetic Impurities
Publication Year
2006
Type
Journal Article
Journal
Phys. Rev. Lett.
Volume
96
Pages
017205
Date Published
01/2006
We measure transport through gold grain quantum dots fabricated using electromigration, with magnetic impurities in the leads. A Kondo interaction is observed between dot and leads, but the presence of magnetic impurities results in a gate-dependent zero-bias conductance peak that is split due to a RKKY interaction between the spin of the dot and the static spins of the impurities. A magnetic field restores the single Kondo peak in the case of an antiferromagnetic RKKY interaction. This system provides a new platform to study Kondo and RKKY interactions in metals at the level of a single spin.