• 文献标题:   Uncovering the Triplet Ground State of Triangular Graphene Nandlakes Engineered with Atomic Precision on a Metal Surface
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LI JC, SANZ S, CASTROESTEBAN J, VILASVARELA M, FRIEDRICH N, FREDERIKSEN T, PENA D, PASCUAL JI
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007 EI 1079-7114
  • 通讯作者地址:   CIC Nanogune BRTA
  • 被引频次:   10
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.177201
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

Graphene can develop large magnetic moments in custom-crafted open-shell nanostructures such as triangulene, a triangular piece of graphene with zigzag edges. Current methods of engineering graphene nanosystems on surfaces succeeded in producing atomically precise open-shell structures, but demonstration of their net spin remains elusive to date. Here, we fabricate triangulenelike graphene systems and demonstrate that they possess a spin S = 1 ground state. Scanning tunneling spectroscopy identifies the fingerprint of an underscreened S = 1 Kondo state on these flakes at low temperatures, signaling the dominant ferromagnetic interactions between two spins. Combined with simulations based on the meanfield Hubbard model, we show that this S = 1 pi paramagnetism is robust and can be turned into an S = 1/2 state by additional H atoms attached to the radical sites. Our results demonstrate that pi paramagnetism of high-spin graphene flakes can survive on surfaces, opening the door to study the quantum behavior of interacting pi spins in graphene systems.