Atomic-Scale Imaging of Fractional Spinon Quasiparticles in Open-Shell Triangulene Spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ Chains
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| author | Yuan, Zhangyu Zhang, Xin-Yu Jiang, Yashi Qian, Xiangjian Wang, Ying Liu, Yufeng Liu, Liang Liu, Xiaoxue Guan, Dandan Li, Yaoyi Zheng, Hao Liu, Canhua Jia, Jinfeng Qin, Mingpu Liu, Pei-Nian Li, Deng-Yuan Wang, Shiyong |
| author_facet | Yuan, Zhangyu Zhang, Xin-Yu Jiang, Yashi Qian, Xiangjian Wang, Ying Liu, Yufeng Liu, Liang Liu, Xiaoxue Guan, Dandan Li, Yaoyi Zheng, Hao Liu, Canhua Jia, Jinfeng Qin, Mingpu Liu, Pei-Nian Li, Deng-Yuan Wang, Shiyong |
| contents | The emergence of spinon quasiparticles, which carry spin but lack charge, is a hallmark of collective quantum phenomena in low-dimensional quantum spin systems. While the existence of spinons has been demonstrated through scattering spectroscopy in ensemble samples, real-space imaging of these quasiparticles within individual spin chains has remained elusive. In this study, we construct individual Heisenberg antiferromagnetic spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ chains using open-shell [2]triangulene molecules as building blocks. Each [2]triangulene unit, owing to its sublattice imbalance, hosts a net spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ in accordance with Lieb's theorem, and these spins are antiferromagnetically coupled within covalent chains with a coupling strength of $J = 45$ meV. Through scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy, we probe the spin states, excitation gaps, and their spatial excitation weights within covalent spin chains of varying lengths with atomic precision. Our investigation reveals that the excitation gap decreases as the chain length increases, extrapolating to zero for long chains, consistent with Haldane's gapless prediction. Moreover, inelastic tunneling spectroscopy reveals an m-shaped energy dispersion characteristic of confined spinon quasiparticles in a one-dimensional quantum box. These findings establish a promising strategy for exploring the unique properties of excitation quasiparticles and their broad implications for quantum information. |
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| spellingShingle | Atomic-Scale Imaging of Fractional Spinon Quasiparticles in Open-Shell Triangulene Spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ Chains Yuan, Zhangyu Zhang, Xin-Yu Jiang, Yashi Qian, Xiangjian Wang, Ying Liu, Yufeng Liu, Liang Liu, Xiaoxue Guan, Dandan Li, Yaoyi Zheng, Hao Liu, Canhua Jia, Jinfeng Qin, Mingpu Liu, Pei-Nian Li, Deng-Yuan Wang, Shiyong Materials Science Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons The emergence of spinon quasiparticles, which carry spin but lack charge, is a hallmark of collective quantum phenomena in low-dimensional quantum spin systems. While the existence of spinons has been demonstrated through scattering spectroscopy in ensemble samples, real-space imaging of these quasiparticles within individual spin chains has remained elusive. In this study, we construct individual Heisenberg antiferromagnetic spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ chains using open-shell [2]triangulene molecules as building blocks. Each [2]triangulene unit, owing to its sublattice imbalance, hosts a net spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ in accordance with Lieb's theorem, and these spins are antiferromagnetically coupled within covalent chains with a coupling strength of $J = 45$ meV. Through scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy, we probe the spin states, excitation gaps, and their spatial excitation weights within covalent spin chains of varying lengths with atomic precision. Our investigation reveals that the excitation gap decreases as the chain length increases, extrapolating to zero for long chains, consistent with Haldane's gapless prediction. Moreover, inelastic tunneling spectroscopy reveals an m-shaped energy dispersion characteristic of confined spinon quasiparticles in a one-dimensional quantum box. These findings establish a promising strategy for exploring the unique properties of excitation quasiparticles and their broad implications for quantum information. |
| title | Atomic-Scale Imaging of Fractional Spinon Quasiparticles in Open-Shell Triangulene Spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ Chains |
| topic | Materials Science Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.08612 |