S. M. Cronenwett, Department of Applied Physics and DIMES, Delft University of Technology, Post Office Box 5046, 2600 GA Delft, Netherlands, and Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305-4060, USA. T. H. Oosterkam.
Abstract:
A tunable Kondo effect has been realized in small quantum dots. A dot can be switched from a Kondo system to a non-Kondo system as the number of electrons on the dot is changed from odd to even. The Kondo temperature can be tuned by means of a gate voltage as a single-particle energy state nears the Fermi energy. Measurements of the temperature and magnetic field dependence of a Coulomb-blockaded dot show good agreement with predictions of both equilibrium and nonequilibrium Kondo effects.