A gateway towards non-collinear spin processing using three-atom magnets with strong substrate coupling

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Erscheinungsjahr:
2017
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Schlagworte:
  • Adatoms
  • Spin
  • Magnetic atoms
  • Magnetic Anisotropy
  • Magnetization
  • Magnetism
  • Adatoms
  • Spin
  • Magnetic atoms
  • Magnetic Anisotropy
  • Magnetization
  • Magnetism
Beschreibung:
  • A cluster of a few magnetic atoms on the surface of a nonmagnetic substrate is one suitable realization of a bit for spin-based information technology. The prevalent approach to achieve magnetic stability is decoupling the cluster spin from substrate conduction electrons in order to suppress destabilizing spin-flips. However, this route entails less flexibility in tailoring the coupling between the bits needed for spin-processing. Here, we use a spin-resolved scanning tunneling microscope to write, read, and store spin information for hours in clusters of three atoms strongly coupled to a substrate featuring a cloud of non-collinearly polarized host atoms, a so-called non-collinear giant moment cluster. The giant moment cluster can be driven into a Kondo screened state by simply moving one of its atoms to a different site. Using the exceptional atomic tunability of the non-collinear substrate mediated Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction, we propose a logical scheme for a four-state memory.
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  • info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Forschungsinformationssystem der UHH

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