How to Directly Measure a Kondo Cloud's Length

作者:Park Jinhong*; Lee S S B; Oreg Yuval; Sim H S
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2013, 110(24): 246603.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.246603

摘要

We propose a method to directly measure, by electrical means, the Kondo screening cloud formed by an Anderson impurity coupled to semi-infinite quantum wires, on which an electrostatic gate voltage is applied at distance L from the impurity. We show that the Kondo cloud, and hence the Kondo temperature and the electron conductance through the impurity, are affected by the gate voltage, as L decreases below the Kondo cloud length. Based on this behavior, the cloud length can be experimentally identified by changing L with a keyboard type of gate voltage or tuning the coupling strength between the impurity and the wires.

  • 出版日期2013-6-14