Title: New trends for the Kondo effect in nanostructures

Authors: Sabine Andergassen, Denis Feinberg, Serge Florens, Mireille Lavagna, Shiueyuan Shiau, Pascal Simon, Raphael Van Roermund

Addresses: Institut Neel, CNRS and Universite Joseph Fourier, BP166, 38042 Grenoble, Cedex 9, France; Institut fur Theoretische Physik A, RWTH Aachen University and JARA – Fundamentals of Future Information Technology, D – 52074 Aachen, Germany. ' Institut Neel, CNRS and Universite Joseph Fourier, BP166, 38042 Grenoble, Cedex 9, France. ' Institut Neel, CNRS and Universite Joseph Fourier, BP166, 38042 Grenoble, Cedex 9, France. ' SPSMS/INAC, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique de Grenoble, 17 rue des Martyrs, 37054 Grenoble, Cedex 9, France. ' SPSMS/INAC, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique de Grenoble, 17 rue des Martyrs, 37054 Grenoble, Cedex 9, France. ' Laboratoire de Physique et Modelisation des Milieux Condenses, Universite Joseph Fourier et CNRS, BP166, 38042 Grenoble, Cedex 9, France; Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, CNRS UMR 8502, Universite Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, Cedex, France. ' SPSMS/INAC, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique de Grenoble, 17 rue des Martyrs, 37054 Grenoble, Cedex 9, France

Abstract: The Kondo effect in confined nanostructures (quantum dots) provides a testbed for a variety of physical behaviours involving strong electronic correlations. Here some extensions of the Kondo effect beyond the standard single-impurity Anderson model are reviewed. Apart from their fundamental interest, these issues may also open new roads for low-temperature spintronics.

Keywords: quantum dots; electronic confinement; Kondo effect; decoherence; electronic interferometry; Josephson junctions; quantum criticality; low temperature spintronics; spin filtering; nanostructures; nanotechnology.

DOI: 10.1504/IJNT.2010.031729

International Journal of Nanotechnology, 2010 Vol.7 No.4/5/6/7/8, pp.438 - 455

Published online: 21 Feb 2010 *

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