Abstract

The Kondo effect of single Co adatoms on Ru(0001) is detected with two different kinds of co-decorated tip (Kondo tip) by using low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and scanning tunneling spectroscopy. We call the relatively separated two magnetic impurities in the tunneling region ‘two Kondo system’ to distinguish it from the ‘two-impurity Kondo system’. We find that the artificially constructed Kondo tips can be generally categorized into two types of Kondo resonances, which have distinct Fano line shapes with quantum interference factor |q| ≫ 1 and |q| ∼ 1, respectively. The tunneling spectra of six constructed two Kondo systems can be well fitted by summing the two Fano resonances of the two subsystems and a linear background. More interestingly, by extracting the amplitudes of the two Fano resonances in the spectra, we find that the electron transmission of such a two Kondo system in the tunneling region is dominated by the quantum interference of the Kondo tip, which is directly related to the geometric configuration of the adsorbed Kondo atom on the tip.

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