{"id":224730,"date":"2025-11-08T00:13:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T06:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/single-organic-molecule-triggers-kondo-effect-in-molecular-scale-kondo-box"},"modified":"2025-11-08T00:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T06:13:14","slug":"single-organic-molecule-triggers-kondo-effect-in-molecular-scale-kondo-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/single-organic-molecule-triggers-kondo-effect-in-molecular-scale-kondo-box","title":{"rendered":"Single organic molecule triggers Kondo effect in molecular-scale \u2018Kondo box\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/single-organic-molecule-triggers-kondo-effect-in-molecular-scale-kondo-box2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research group led by Prof. Li Xiangyang from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has made a new discovery: a single organic molecule can induce the Kondo effect in a magnetic atom, challenging the long-standing belief that this quantum phenomenon requires a vast sea of metallic electrons.<\/p>\n<p>The research results were <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/65qq-dknn\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n<p>The Kondo effect is a quantum many-body phenomenon where conduction electrons in a metal collectively screen the magnetic moment of a localized impurity atom. It has been helping to explain strongly correlated electron behavior and inspiring advances in nanoscience, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/molecular+electronics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">molecular electronics<\/a>, and quantum information research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research group led by Prof. Li Xiangyang from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has made a new discovery: a single organic molecule can induce the Kondo effect in a magnetic atom, challenging the long-standing belief that this quantum phenomenon requires a vast sea of metallic electrons. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}