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Projecting the Kondo effect: theory of the quantum mirage
1Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.
Physical Review Letters
|February 15, 2001
Abstract:
A microscopic theory is developed for the projection (quantum mirage) of the Kondo resonance from one focus of an elliptic quantum corral to the other focus. The quantum mirage is shown to be independent of the size and the shape of the ellipse, and experiences lambdaF/4 oscillations ( lambdaF is the surface-band Fermi wavelength) with an increasing semimajor axis length. We predict an oscillatory behavior of the mirage as a function of a weak magnetic field applied perpendicular to the sample.