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This paper presents a review of the work performed by the authors to incorporate the inner structure of a d-shell magnetic atom in the description of the many-body interaction between a transition metal atom impurity and a metal host. Two main assumptions are made in this approach: (i) the magnetic atom has an orbital singlet with a total electronic spin S (as corresponds to a case for which the angular moment is quenched); (ii) the first Hund’s rule determines the inner electronic structure of the magnetic atom. Using these two assumptions and the rotational symmetry of the electronic spin, an ionic Hamiltonian is introduced and, in a further step, the effective exchange metal atom coupling and the impurity Kondo temperature are analyzed.
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This paper has been written to honor the distinguished Professor Renato Pucci in his 70th anniversary. ECG acknowledges financial support by CONICET through Grant No. PIP-201101-00621 and U.N.L. through CAI+D grants. FF acknowledges support from the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) under project MAT2014-59966-R. and through the “María de Maeztu” Programme for Units of Excellence in R&D (MDM-2014-0377).
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Flores, F., Goldberg, E.C. (2017). Introducing the Inner Structure of the Magnetic Atom in the Interaction Between a Transition Metal Atom Impurity and a Metal Surface. In: Angilella, G., La Magna, A. (eds) Correlations in Condensed Matter under Extreme Conditions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53664-4_2
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