Exotic magnetic states in miniature dimensions
Dübendorf, St. Gallen und Thun, 14.10.2021 - Led by scientists at Empa and the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, an international team of researchers from Switzerland, Portugal, Germany, and Spain have succeeded in building carbon-based quantum spin chains, where they captured the emergence of one of the cornerstone models of quantum magnetism first proposed by the 2016 Nobel laureate F. D. M. Haldane in 1983. Published in the journal Nature, the results of the team could have widespread implications in the understanding of low-dimensional quantum magnetism and may contribute toward the emerging field of quantum computing.