TY - JOUR AU - Raczkowski, Marcin AU - Assaad, Fakher F. TI - Emergent Coherent Lattice Behavior in Kondo Nanosystems JO - Physical review letters VL - 122 IS - 9 SN - 1079-7114 CY - College Park, Md. PB - APS M1 - FZJ-2020-03852 SP - 097203 PY - 2019 AB - How many magnetic moments periodically arranged on a metallic surface are needed to generate a coherent Kondo lattice behavior? We investigate this fundamental issue within the particle-hole symmetric Kondo lattice model using quantum Monte Carlo simulations. Extra magnetic atoms forming closed shells around the initial impurity induce a fast splitting of the Kondo resonance at the inner shells, which signals the formation of composite heavy-fermion bands. The onset of the hybridization gap matches well the enhancement of antiferromagnetic spin correlations in the plane perpendicular to the applied magnetic field, a genuine feature of the coherent Kondo lattice. In contrast, the outermost shell remains dominated by a local Kondo physics with spectral features resembling the single-impurity behavior. LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 DO - DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.097203 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/885469 ER -