Conductance through a Ti-atom impurity in Ag(100) and Au(111): An ionic model considering spin fluctuations
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UAM. Departamento de Física Teórica de la Materia CondensadaPublisher
The American Physical SocietyDate
2013-05-10Citation
10.1103/PhysRevB.87.195419
Physycal Review B 87.19 (2013): 195419
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1098-0121 (print); 1550-235X (online)DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.87.195419Funded by
E.C.G., M.A.R., and C.S.G.C. acknowledge financial support from ANPCyT through Grant No. PICT2007-0811 and U.N.L. through a CAI + D grant. F.F. has been supported by the Spanish MICIIN under Contract No. FIS2010-16046 and the CAM under Contract No. S2009/MAT-1467Project
Comunidad de Madrid. S2009/MAT-1467/NANOOBJETOSEditor's Version
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.87.195419Subjects
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© 2013 American Physical SocietyAbstract
We describe the interaction between a transition-metal atom and a noble-metal surface by using an ionic model in which the first Hund’s rule determines the filling of the atom’s d levels, and spin fluctuations occur due to the electron exchange between the metal band and the atom states. We apply our model to the case of adsorbed Ti atoms on noble-metal surfaces (Ag and Au) in which conductance measurements in scanning tunneling microscope experiments suggest a mixed-valence regime according to the position and width of the atomic resonance. By introducing, in our calculation, these two parameters as extracted from the experiment, we satisfactorily reproduce the experimental results in both cases. We find, in the Ag(100) surface, that the conductance spectrum reflects electronic characteristics of the metal surface modified by the presence of the magnetic atom; whereas, in the Au(111) case, only the projected density of states on the Ti atom determines the conductance spectrum shape
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Google Scholar:Romero, M. A.
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Gómez Carrillo, C. S.
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Flores Sintas, Fernando
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Goldberg, E. C.
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