Karan, S., Jacob, D., Karolak, M., Hamann, C., Wang, Y., Weismann, A., Lichtenstein, A. I., Berndt, R.
Shifting the voltage drop in electron transport through a single molecule
Physical Review Letters 115, (1),pp 016802/1-5 (2015)
A Mn-porphyrin was contacted on Au(111) in a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope (STM).
Differential conductance spectra show a zero-bias resonance that is due to an underscreened Kondo effect according to many-body calculations. When the Mn center is contacted by the STM tip, the spectrum appears to invert along the voltage axis. A drastic change in the electrostatic potential of the molecule involving a small geometric relaxation is found to cause this observation.
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