Gate-tuned two-channel Kondo screening in Graphene: Universal scaling of the nonlinear conductance

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Abstract

We study the nonlinear conductance through magnetic adatoms on Graphene. In particular, we address the finite-temperature crossover from a quantum critical to the two-channel Kondo regime expected to occur in doped Graphene. Based on the non-crossing approximation, We calculate both the linear and nonlinear conductance within the two-lead single-impurity Anderson model where the conduction electron density of states vanishes in a power-law fashion $ \propto |\omega-\mu_F|^r$ with $r=1$ near the Fermi energy, appropriately for Graphene. For given gate voltage, we study the universal crossover from a 2-channel Kondo (2CK) phase to a un-screened local momemt (LM) phase. We extract universal scaling functions governing charge transport through the adatom and discuss our results in the context of a recent scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STM) experiment on Co-doped Graphene.

Authors

  • Chung-Hou Chung

    Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao-Tung University and Physics Division, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, HsinChu, Taiwan, R.O.C., Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao-Tung University, HsinChu, Taiwan, R.O.C.

  • Tsung-Han Lee

    Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao-Tung University, HsinChu, Taiwan, R.O.C.

  • Kenneth Yi-Jieh Zhang

    Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao-Tung University, HsinChu, Taiwan, R.O.C.

  • Stefan Kirchner

    Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems and Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, 01187 Dresden, Germany, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik komplexer Systeme and Max-Planck-Institut fuer chemische Physik Stoffe, Dresden, Germany, MPI-PKS, MPI-CPFS, Dresden, Germany