title: Non-Fermi-liquid behavior in transport through Co-doped Au chains.
abstract: We calculate the conductance as a function of temperature G(T) through Au monatomic chains containing one Co atom as a magnetic impurity, and connected to two conducting leads with a fourfold symmetry axis. Using the information derived from ab initio calculations, we construct an effective model Ĥ(eff) that hybridizes a 3d(7) quadruplet at the Co site with two 3d(8) triplets through the hopping of 5d(xz) and 5d(yz) electrons of Au. The quadruplet is split by spin anisotropy due to spin-orbit coupling. Solving Ĥ(eff) with the numerical renormalization group we find that at low temperatures G(T)=a-b√[T] and the ground state impurity entropy is ln(2)/2, a behavior similar to the two-channel Kondo model. Stretching the chain leads to a non-Kondo phase, with the physics of the underscreened Kondo model at the quantum critical point.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, CAC-CNEA, Avenida General Paz 1499, 1650 San Martín, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, CONICET, Buenos Aires C1033AAJ, Argentina.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Di Napoli
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Weichselbaum
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Roura-Bas
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Aligia
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Mokrousov
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Blügel