Publications by François Patthey

A high bandwidth and high transmission STM bias line for ESR and quantum stochastic resonance measurements at 0.4 K

Harald Brune, François Patthey, Shixuan Shan, Johannes Schwenk, Clément Marie Soulard

We present a scanning tunneling microscope operating in a 3He cryostat at a base temperature of 0.4 K, suitable for electron spin resonance (ESR) [S. Baumann, W. Paul, T. Choi, C. P. Lutz, A. Ardavan, and A. J. Heinrich, Science 350, 417 (2015)], quantum s ...

2025

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

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

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

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

Upgrade of a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope for electron-spin resonance

Harald Brune, François Patthey, Nicolas Weiss, Donat Fabian Natterer, Tobias Bilgeri, Patrick Robert Forrester

Electron spin resonance with a scanning tunneling microscope (ESR-STM) combines the high energy resolution of spin resonance spectroscopy with the atomic scale control and spatial resolution of STM. Here we describe the upgrade of a helium-3 STM with a 2D ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2019

Quantum state manipulation of single atom magnets using the hyperfine interaction

Harald Brune, François Patthey, Donat Fabian Natterer, Edgar Fernandes, Patrick Robert Forrester, Dante Philippe Sblendorio

The magnetic quantum states of holmium single atom magnets on MgO(100) have proven extremely robust when exposed to high magnetic fields and temperatures up to 35 K. Here we address the stability of Ho at small magnetic fields, where the hyperfine interact ...

2019

Spin Excitations in a 4f-3d Heterodimer on MgO

Harald Brune, François Patthey, Christian Wäckerlin, Fabio Donati, Donat Fabian Natterer, Aparajita Singha, Zeljko Sljivancanin

We report on the magnetic properties of HoCo dimers as a model system for the smallest intermetallic compound of a lanthanide and a transition metal atom. The dimers are adsorbed on ultrathin MgO(100) films grown on Ag(100). New for 4f elements, we detect ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2018

Antiferromagnetic MnNi tips for spin-polarized scanning probe microscopy

Harald Brune, François Patthey, Donat Fabian Natterer, Tobias Bilgeri, Patrick Robert Forrester

Spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy (SP-STM) measures magnetoresistance with atomic resolution. While various methods for achieving SP probes have been developed, each is limited with respect to fabrication, performance, and operating conditions. ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2018

Thermal and Magnetic-Field Stability of Holmium Single-Atom Magnets

Harald Brune, François Patthey, Fabio Donati, Donat Fabian Natterer

2018

Adsorption sites of individual metal atoms on ultrathin MgO(100) films

Harald Brune, François Patthey, Fabio Donati, Edgar Fernandes, Zeljko Sljivancanin

We use Ca doping during growth of one- and two-monolayer-thick MgO films on Ag(100) to identify the adsorption sites of individual adatoms with scanning tunnelingmicroscopy. For thiswe combine atomic resolution images of the bare MgO layer with images of t ...

Amer Physical Soc2017