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Quantum chains with a spin

Nature Materials volume 5, pages 431–432 (2006)Cite this article

The ability to access experimentally the quantum-mechanical nature of the interaction between single atomic spins opens windows onto the most fundamental magnetic phenomena.

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Figure 1: Spin states in classical and quantum atomic chains with N = 3, 4 atoms, corresponding to uncompensated and compensated magnetic moments, respectively.
Figure 2: STM image of a single Mn atom (foreground) and an N = 2 chain of Mn atoms (background) on the CuN substrate.

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  2. Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology (ICN), UAB Campus, Bellaterra, E-08193, Spain

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