News tagged with kondo effect

Tunnel view of how electrons play

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electrons behave like football teams: the match becomes interesting when the teamwork is as good as that conjured up by the players of FC Barcelona. Electrons which interact strongly with ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Nanophysicists find unexpected magnetic effect: Kondo effect noted in single-atom contacts of pure ferromagnets

Spanish and U.S. physicists studying nanoelectronics have found that size really does matter when it comes to predicting the behavior of electrical contacts that are just one atom wide.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0




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A new class of electron interactions in quantum systems

Physicists at the University of New South Wales have observed a new kind of interaction that can arise between electrons in a single-atom silicon transistor.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Impurity atoms introduce waves of disorder in exotic electronic material

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's a basic technique learned early, maybe even before kindergarten: Pulling things apart - from toy cars to complicated electronic materials - can reveal a lot about how they work. "That's ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

How do electrons become entangled?

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Princeton researcher and his international collaborators have used lasers to peek into the complex relationship between a single electron and its environment, a breakthrough that could aid the development ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 29, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists make magnetic new graphene discovery

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Maryland researchers have discovered a way to control magnetic properties of graphene that could lead to powerful new applications in magnetic storage and magnetic random access ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 14, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 19 | with audio podcast

Magnetism's subatomic roots: Study of high-tech materials helps explain everyday phenomenon

(PhysOrg.com) -- The modern world -- with its ubiquitous electronic devices and electrical power -- can trace its lineage directly to the discovery, less than two centuries ago, of the link between electricity and magnetism. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 03, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (20) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Wind power may have its own environmental problems

Wind power generation is expected to be a clean and environmentally friendly natural energy source, but a new kind of environmental problem has surfaced as infrasonic waves caused by windmills are suspected of causing health ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 05, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (18) | comments 12

Unlocking the secret of the Kondo Effect

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists including researchers from the London Centre for Nanotechnology at UCL (University College London) and the IBM Almaden Research Center has forged a breakthrough in understanding an intriguing ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 22, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (46) | comments 5

Physicists tailor magnetic pairings in nanoscale semiconductors

Electrons love to zip around metals such as copper, especially if the metal is cooled to temperatures near absolute zero. But if they encounter a magnetic atom (say, iron) during their travels, the electrons will try to "screen," ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 14, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 0

Delicate Relation between Single Spins

Probing the magnetic interaction between single atoms is no longer a dream. Using a scanning tunnelling microscope, the interaction of the spins of two neighbouring cobalt atoms adsorbed at a copper surface ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 01, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (21) | comments 0

Physicists manipulate temperature of Kondo effect

Physicists at Ohio University have learned how to manipulate the temperature of the Kondo effect, which they observed for the first time in a two-dimensional molecular layer.

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 31, 2007 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (17) | comments 0


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