Site-Specific Kondo Effect at Ambient Temperatures in Iron-Based Molecules
Author(s) -
Gao Li,
Wei Ji,
Y. B. Hu,
Zhihai Cheng,
Zhitao Deng,
Qinghe Liu,
Nan Jiang,
Xiao Lin,
Wei Guo,
Shixuan Du,
Werner A. Hofer,
Xiaoming Xie,
HongJun Gao
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
physical review letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.688
H-Index - 673
eISSN - 1079-7114
pISSN - 0031-9007
DOI - 10.1103/physrevlett.99.106402
Subject(s) - kondo effect , impurity , adsorption , coupling (piping) , materials science , molecule , resonance (particle physics) , condensed matter physics , range (aeronautics) , atmospheric temperature range , substrate (aquarium) , inductive coupling , chemical physics , atomic physics , physics , chemistry , thermodynamics , quantum mechanics , metallurgy , composite material , geology , oceanography
Kondo resonances are a very precise measure of spin-polarized transport through magnetic impurities. However, the Kondo temperature, indicating the thermal range of stability of the magnetic properties, is very low. By contrast, we find for iron phthalocyanine a Kondo temperature in spectroscopic measurements which is well above room temperature. It is also shown that the signal of the resonance depends strongly on the adsorption site of the molecule on a gold surface. Experimental data are verified by extensive numerical simulations, which establish that the coupling between iron states and states of the substrate depends strongly on the adsorption configuration.
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