Publications by Aparajita Singha

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

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

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

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, Stefano Rusponi, Marina Pivetta, Christian Wäckerlin, Jan Gui-Hyon Dreiser, Pietro Gambardella, Fabio Donati, Aparajita Singha, 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

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

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

Large effect of metal substrate on magnetic anisotropy of Co on hexagonal boron nitride

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

We combine x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), x-raymagnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) and x-ray magnetic linear dichroism (XMLD) data with first principles density functional theory (DFT) calculations and amultiorbital many-body Hamiltonian approach to u ...

2019

Understanding the Superior Stability of Single-Molecule Magnets on an Oxide Film

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

The stability of magnetic information stored in surface adsorbed single-molecule magnets is of critical interest for applications in nanoscale data storage or quantum computing. The present study combines X-ray magnetic circular dichroism, density function ...

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

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

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

2018

Excited Spin-State Trapping in Spin Crossover Complexes on Ferroelectric Substrates

Harald Brune, Stefano Rusponi, Christian Wäckerlin, Fabio Donati, Aparajita Singha, Romana Baltic

2018