Publications de Marina Pivetta

The Impact of Lattice Distortions on the Magnetic Stability of Single Atoms: Dy and Ho on BaO(100)

Harald Brune, Stefano Rusponi, Marina Pivetta, Darius Constantin Merk, Sébastien Reynaud, Boris Sorokin

X-ray magnetic circular dichroism, atomic multiplet simulations, and density functional theory calculations are employed to identify criteria for the optimum combination of supporting alkaline earth oxide and adsorption site maximizing the spin lifetimes o ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023

Erbium and thulium on MgO(100)/Ag(100) as candidates for single atom qubits

Harald Brune, François Patthey, Stefano Rusponi, Marina Pivetta, Edgar Fernandes, Fabio Donati, Aparajita Singha

Lanthanide atoms on surfaces are an exceptional platform for atomic-scale magnetic information storage. However, their potential as qubits remains unexplored due to the limited number of experimental setups that can coherently drive the spins of single ada ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

Valence Orbitals Driving the Spin Dynamics in a Rare-Earth Single-Atom Magnet

Harald Brune, François Patthey, Stefano Rusponi, Marina Pivetta, Dante Philippe Sblendorio, Alberto Curcella

We combine spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy with quantum master equation analysis to investigate the spin dynamics of the single atom magnet Dy on graphene/Ir(111). By performing reading and writing experiments, we show that the strongly spin p ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

Slow Magnetic Relaxation of Dy Adatoms with In-Plane Magnetic Anisotropy on a Two- Dimensional Electron Gas

Harald Brune, Stefano Rusponi, Marina Pivetta, Darius Constantin Merk, Sébastien Reynaud, Boris Sorokin, Dante Philippe Sblendorio

We report on the magnetic properties of Dy atoms adsorbed on the (001) surface of SrTiO3. X-ray magnetic circular dichroism reveals slow relaxation of the Dy magnetization on a time scale of about 800 s at 2.5 K, unusually associated with an easy-plane mag ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Correlation between Electronic Configuration and Magnetic Stability in Dysprosium Single Atom Magnets

Harald Brune, Pietro Gambardella, Stefano Rusponi, Marina Pivetta, Edgar Fernandes, Jean-Guillaume De Groot, Fabio Donati, Aparajita Singha, Jan Gui-Hyon Dreiser, Christian Wäckerlin, Romana Baltic

Single atom magnets offer the possibility of magnetic information storage in the most fundamental unit of matter. Identifying the parameters that control the stability of their magnetic states is crucial to design novel quantum magnets with tailored proper ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Mapping Orbital-Resolved Magnetism in Single Lanthanide Atoms

Harald Brune, Stefano Rusponi, Marina Pivetta, Fabio Donati, Aparajita Singha

Single lanthanide atoms and molecules are promising candidates for atomic data storage and quantum logic due to the long lifetime of their magnetic quantum states. Accessing and controlling these states through electrical transport requires precise knowled ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Unconventional Spin Relaxation Involving Localized Vibrational Modes in Ho Single-Atom Magnets

Harald Brune, Pietro Gambardella, Stefano Rusponi, Marina Pivetta, Fabio Donati, Aparajita Singha, Jan Gui-Hyon Dreiser, Christian Wäckerlin, Romana Baltic, Katharina Johanna Diller

We investigate the spin relaxation of Ho single atom magnets on MgO/Ag(100) as a function of temperature and magnetic field. We find that the spin relaxation is thermally activated at low field, while it remains larger than 1000 s up to 30 K and 8 T. This ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Measuring the Intra-Atomic Exchange Energy in Rare-Earth Adatoms

Harald Brune, François Patthey, Stefano Rusponi, Marina Pivetta

We present the first experimental determination of the intra-atomic exchange energy between the inner 4f and the outer 6s5d shells in rare-earth elements. Inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy on individual rare-earth atoms adsorbed on metal-supported ...

American Physical Society2020

Magnetic properties of on-surface synthesized single-ion molecular magnets

Harald Brune, Stefano Rusponi, Marina Pivetta, Aparajita Singha, Jan Gui-Hyon Dreiser, Christian Wäckerlin, Katharina Johanna Diller

We perform on-surface synthesis of single-ion molecular magnets on an Ag(111) surface and characterize their morphology, chemistry, and magnetism. The first molecule we synthesize is TbPc2 to enable comparison with chemically synthesized and subsequently s ...

2019

Direct capture and electrostatic repulsion in the self-assembly of rare-earth atom superlattices on graphene

Harald Brune, Stefano Rusponi, Marina Pivetta

2018

Magnetic properties of single rare-earth atoms on graphene/Ir(111)

Harald Brune, Stefano Rusponi, Marina Pivetta, Fabio Donati, Aparajita Singha, Jan Gui-Hyon Dreiser, Christian Wäckerlin, Romana Baltic

2018

Two-Orbital Kondo Screening in a Self-Assembled Metal Organic Complex

Harald Brune, Stefano Rusponi, Oleg Yazyev, Marina Pivetta, Fabio Donati, Luca Gragnaniello, Gabriel Albert Autes, Giulia Elisabetta Pacchioni

Iron atoms adsorbed on a Cu(111) surface and buried under polyphenyl dicarbonitrile molecules exhibit strongly spatial anisotropic Kondo features with directionally dependent Kondo temperatures and line shapes, as evidenced by scanning tunneling spectrosco ...

American Chemical Society2017

Complex Magnetic Exchange Coupling between Co Nanostructures and Ni(111) across Epitaxial Graphene

Harald Brune, Pietro Gambardella, François Patthey, Stefano Rusponi, Marina Pivetta, Fabio Donati

We report on the magnetic coupling between isolated Co atoms as well as small Co islands and Ni(111) mediated by an epitaxial graphene layer. X-ray magnetic circular dichroism and scanning tunneling microscopy combined with density functional theory calcul ...

American Chemical Society2016

Magnetic Hysteresis in Er Trimers on Cu(111)

Harald Brune, Stefano Rusponi, Marina Pivetta, Fabio Donati, Aparajita Singha, Jan Gui-Hyon Dreiser, Christian Wäckerlin, Romana Baltic

We report magnetic hysteresis in Er clusters on. Cu(111) starting from the size-of three atoms. combining Xray magnetic circular dichroism, scanning tunneling microscopy, and mean-field nucleation theory, we determine the size dependent magnetic properties ...

American Chemical Society2016

Out-of-Plane Alignment of Er(trensal) Easy Magnetization Axes Using Graphene

Harald Brune, Stefano Rusponi, Marina Pivetta, Alberto Cavallin, Fabio Donati, Luca Gragnaniello, Giulia Elisabetta Pacchioni, Jan Gui-Hyon Dreiser

We have studied Er(trensal) single -ion magnets adsorbed on graphene/Ru(0001), on graphene/Ir(111), and on bare Ru(0001) by scanning tunneling microscopy and X-ray absorption spectroscopy. On graphene, the molecules self -assemble into dense and well -orde ...

American Chemical Society2016

Competing Interactions in the Self-Assembly of NC-Ph-3-CN Molecules on Cu(111)

Harald Brune, Marina Pivetta, Giulia Elisabetta Pacchioni

We report on low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy measurements on NC-Ph-3-CN molecules adsorbed at 300 K on a Cu(111) surface. Upon cooling, the molecules form chain and honeycomb structures, incorporating Cu adatoms supplied by t ...

American Chemical Society2015

Origin of Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy and Large Orbital Moment in Fe Atoms on MgO

Harald Brune, Pietro Gambardella, Stefano Rusponi, Marina Pivetta, Fabio Donati, Luca Gragnaniello, Giulia Elisabetta Pacchioni, Jan Gui-Hyon Dreiser

We report on the magnetic properties of individual Fe atoms deposited on MgO(100) thin films probed by x-ray magnetic circular dichroism and scanning tunneling spectroscopy. We show that the Fe atoms have strong perpendicular magnetic anisotropy with a zer ...

American Physical Society2015

Formation of Fe Cluster Superlattice in a Metal-Organic Quantum-Box Network

Harald Brune, Marina Pivetta, Uta Schlickum, Giulia Elisabetta Pacchioni

We report on the self-assembly of Fe adatoms on a Cu(111) surface that is patterned by a metal-organic honeycomb network, formed by coordination of dicarbonitrile pentaphenyl molecules with Cu adatoms. Fe atoms landing on the metal surface are mobile and s ...

Amer Physical Soc2013

Structural and electronic properties of the Bi/Au(110)-1x4 surface

Harald Brune, Marco Grioni, François Patthey, Oleg Yazyev, Marina Pivetta, Alberto Crepaldi, Gabriel Albert Autes, Cédric Tournier-Colletta

We report on the structural and electronic properties of the Bi/Au(110)-1 x 4 surface, by combining scanning tunneling microscopy, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, and first-principles calculations. The analysis of the precursor 1 x 8 moire struc ...

American Physical Society2013

Growth and characterization of fullerene nanocrystals on NaCl/Au(111)

François Patthey, Wolf-Dieter Schneider, Elizabeta Cavar, Marina Pivetta, Frédéric Rossel

The growth of fullerene nanocrystals, composed of only C-60, only C-70, or a mixture of both fullerenes, has been investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). The nanocrystals, formed on a NaCl ultrathin layer partially covering a Au(111) surface, ...

2011