Delgado F, Batista CD, Fernández-Rossier J. Local probe of fractional edge states of S=1 Heisenberg spin chains.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2013;
111:167201. [PMID:
24182294 DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.111.167201]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2013] [Revised: 08/22/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
Abstract
Spin chains are among the simplest physical systems in which electron-electron interactions induce novel states of matter. Here we propose to combine atomic scale engineering and spectroscopic capabilities of state of the art scanning tunnel microscopy to probe the fractionalized edge states of individual atomic scale S=1 spin chains. These edge states arise from the topological order of the ground state in the Haldane phase. We also show that the Haldane gap and the spin-spin correlation length can be measured with the same technique.
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