Kondo resonance narrowing in d- and f-electron systems

Andriy H Nevidomskyy1, P Coleman

  • 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA. nevidomskyy@cantab.net

Physical Review Letters
|November 13, 2009
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