Regensburg 2013 – wissenschaftliches Programm
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MA: Fachverband Magnetismus
MA 44: Surface Magnetism (jointly with O)
MA 44.3: Vortrag
Donnerstag, 14. März 2013, 15:45–16:00, H3
Parity effect in ground state localization of antiferromagnetic chains coupled to a ferromagnet — Simon Holzberger1, Tobias Schuh1, Samir Lounis2, Stefan Blügel2, and •Wulf Wulfhekel1 — 1Physikalisches Institut, KIT — 2Peter Grünberg Institut, Forschungszentrum Jülich
We investigate the ground states of antiferromagnetic Mn nanochains on Ni(110) by spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy in combination with theory. While the ferrimagnetic linear trimer experimentally shows the predicted collinear classical ground state, no magnetic contrast was observed for dimers and tetramers where non-collinear structures were expected based on ab-initio theory. This striking observation can be explained by zero-point energy motion for even numbered chains derived within a classical equation of motion leading to non classical ground states. Thus, depending on the parity of the chain length, the system shows a classical or a quantum behavior.