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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 102, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.046801
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- ANPCyT [3829/03, 483/06, 482/06]
- CONICET [PIP 5254/05]
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The problem of a magnetic impurity, atomic or molecular, absorbed on top of a carbon atom in otherwise clean graphene is studied using the numerical renormalization group. The spectral, thermodynamic, and scattering properties of the impurity are described in detail. In the presence of a small magnetic field, the low-energy electronic features of graphene make it possible to inject spin-polarized currents through the impurity using a scanning tunneling microscope. Furthermore, the impurity scattering becomes strongly spin dependent and for a finite impurity concentration it leads to spin-polarized bulk currents and a large magnetoresistance. In gated graphene the impurity spin is Kondo screened at low temperatures. However, at temperatures larger than the Kondo temperature, the anomalous magnetotransport properties are recovered.
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