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Oscillation and suppression of Kondo temperature by RKKY coupling in two-site Kondo systems

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, , Citation Ammar Nejati and Johann Kroha 2017 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 807 082004 DOI 10.1088/1742-6596/807/8/082004

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Abstract

We apply our recently developed, selfconsistent renormalization group (RG) method [1] to STM spectra of a two-impurity Kondo system consisting of two cobalt atoms connected by a one-dimensional Cu chain on a Cu surface [2]. This RG method was developed to describe local spin screening in multi-impurity Kondo systems in presence of the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction. Using the RKKY interaction of a one-dimensional chain, we explain the experimentally observed suppression and oscillation of the Kondo temperature, TK(y), as a function of the length of the chain and the corresponding RKKY interaction parameter y, regardless of the RKKY coupling being ferromagnetic or antiferromagnetic.

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