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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 105, Issue 20, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.105.205114
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- AN-PCyT, Argentina [PICT 2017-2726, PICT 2018-01546]
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The system of an iron phthalocyanine molecule on the Au(111) surface has been studied recently due to its peculiar properties. In particular, several surprising results of scanning tunneling spectroscopy changing the position of the molecule and applying magnetic field can be explained by the non-Landau Fermi liquid state of a two-channel spin-1 Kondo model with anisotropy. The localized orbitals near the Fermi level are three, one of symmetry z2 and two (nearly) degenerate ?? orbitals of symmetry xz and yz. Previous studies using the numerical renormalization group neglected one of these orbitals to render the problem tractable. Here we investigate, using a slave-boson mean-field approximation, if the splitting S between ?? orbitals caused by spin-orbit coupling (SOC) justifies this approximation. We obtain an abrupt transition from a three-band regime to a two-band one at a value of S, which is about 1/3 of the atomic SOC for Fe, justifying the two-band model for the system.
The system of an iron phthalocyanine molecule on the Au(111) surface has been studied recently due to its peculiar properties. In particular, several surprising results of scanning tunneling spectroscopy changing the position of the molecule and applying magnetic field can be explained by the non-Landau Fermi liquid state of a two-channel spin-1 Kondo model with anisotropy. The localized orbitals near the Fermi level are three, one of symmetry z2 and two (nearly) degenerate ?? orbitals of symmetry xz and yz. Previous studies using the numerical renormalization group neglected one of these orbitals to render the problem tractable. Here we investigate, using a slave-boson mean-field approximation, if the splitting S between ?? orbitals caused by spin-orbit coupling (SOC) justifies this approximation. We obtain an abrupt transition from a three-band regime to a two-band one at a value of S, which is about 1/3 of the atomic SOC for Fe, justifying the two-band model for the system.
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