• 文献标题:   Localized Spins on Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   CORNAGLIA PS, USAJ G, BALSEIRO CA
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007
  • 通讯作者地址:   Comis Nacl Energia Atom
  • 被引频次:   74
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.046801
  • 出版年:   2009

▎ 摘  要

The problem of a magnetic impurity, atomic or molecular, absorbed on top of a carbon atom in otherwise clean graphene is studied using the numerical renormalization group. The spectral, thermodynamic, and scattering properties of the impurity are described in detail. In the presence of a small magnetic field, the low-energy electronic features of graphene make it possible to inject spin-polarized currents through the impurity using a scanning tunneling microscope. Furthermore, the impurity scattering becomes strongly spin dependent and for a finite impurity concentration it leads to spin-polarized bulk currents and a large magnetoresistance. In gated graphene the impurity spin is Kondo screened at low temperatures. However, at temperatures larger than the Kondo temperature, the anomalous magnetotransport properties are recovered.