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Stabilizing the magnetic moment of single holmium atoms by symmetry

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  • Toshio Miyamachi

    (Physikalisches Institut, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Wolfgang-Gaede-Straße 1, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
    Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwashi, Chiba 277-8581, Japan)

  • Tobias Schuh

    (Physikalisches Institut, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Wolfgang-Gaede-Straße 1, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany)

  • Tobias Märkl

    (Physikalisches Institut, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Wolfgang-Gaede-Straße 1, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany)

  • Christopher Bresch

    (Physikalisches Institut, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Wolfgang-Gaede-Straße 1, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany)

  • Timofey Balashov

    (Physikalisches Institut, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Wolfgang-Gaede-Straße 1, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany)

  • Alexander Stöhr

    (Physikalisches Institut, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Wolfgang-Gaede-Straße 1, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
    Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Heisenbergstraße 1, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany)

  • Christian Karlewski

    (Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Wolfgang-Gaede-Straße 1, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany)

  • Stephan André

    (Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Wolfgang-Gaede-Straße 1, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany)

  • Michael Marthaler

    (Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Wolfgang-Gaede-Straße 1, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany)

  • Martin Hoffmann

    (Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik, Weinberg 2, 06120 Halle, Germany
    Institut für Physik, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 06099 Halle, Germany)

  • Matthias Geilhufe

    (Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik, Weinberg 2, 06120 Halle, Germany)

  • Sergey Ostanin

    (Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik, Weinberg 2, 06120 Halle, Germany)

  • Wolfram Hergert

    (Institut für Physik, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 06099 Halle, Germany)

  • Ingrid Mertig

    (Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik, Weinberg 2, 06120 Halle, Germany
    Institut für Physik, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 06099 Halle, Germany)

  • Gerd Schön

    (Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Wolfgang-Gaede-Straße 1, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany)

  • Arthur Ernst

    (Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik, Weinberg 2, 06120 Halle, Germany
    Wilhelm-Ostwald-Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Leipzig, Linnéstraße 2, 04103 Leipzig, Germany)

  • Wulf Wulfhekel

    (Physikalisches Institut, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Wolfgang-Gaede-Straße 1, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany)

Abstract

Single magnetic atoms on non-magnetic surfaces have magnetic moments that are usually destabilized within a microsecond, too speedily to be useful, but here the magnetic moments of single holmium atoms on a highly conductive metallic substrate can reach lifetimes of the order of minutes.

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  • Toshio Miyamachi & Tobias Schuh & Tobias Märkl & Christopher Bresch & Timofey Balashov & Alexander Stöhr & Christian Karlewski & Stephan André & Michael Marthaler & Martin Hoffmann & Matthias Geilhufe, 2013. "Stabilizing the magnetic moment of single holmium atoms by symmetry," Nature, Nature, vol. 503(7475), pages 242-246, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:503:y:2013:i:7475:d:10.1038_nature12759
    DOI: 10.1038/nature12759
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