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Main Authors: Martínez-Carracedo, Gabriel, García-Fuente, Amador, Oroszlány, László, Szunyogh, László, Ferrer, Jaime
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23360
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author Martínez-Carracedo, Gabriel
García-Fuente, Amador
Oroszlány, László
Szunyogh, László
Ferrer, Jaime
author_facet Martínez-Carracedo, Gabriel
García-Fuente, Amador
Oroszlány, László
Szunyogh, László
Ferrer, Jaime
contents We investigate from first principles a variety of low-dimensional open quantum spin systems based on magnetic nanographene structures that contain spin-1/2 and spin-1 triangulenes and/or olympicenes. These graphene nanostructures behave as localized spins and can be effectively described by a quantum bilinear-biquadratic Heisenberg Hamiltonian, for which we will compute the energy spectrum and the quantum numbers associated with the low-energy eigenstates. We propose the experimental realization of antiferromagnetic alternating spin chains using these graphene nanostructures, which result in ferrimagnetic systems whose ground state spin and degeneracy depend on the length of the chain. We identify a double degeneracy in the total spin quantum number $S$ of the first excited state in three-leg spin graphs (3-LSGs) and other heterospin nanostructures, which depends on both the number of sites and the spin species, and originates from the swapping transformation symmetry of the Hamiltonian. Numerical simulations indicate that this degeneracy remains largely robust for $N=7$ spin-1 3-LSGs under realistic perturbations present in experimental conditions.
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spellingShingle Graphene-based quantum heterospin graphs
Martínez-Carracedo, Gabriel
García-Fuente, Amador
Oroszlány, László
Szunyogh, László
Ferrer, Jaime
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
We investigate from first principles a variety of low-dimensional open quantum spin systems based on magnetic nanographene structures that contain spin-1/2 and spin-1 triangulenes and/or olympicenes. These graphene nanostructures behave as localized spins and can be effectively described by a quantum bilinear-biquadratic Heisenberg Hamiltonian, for which we will compute the energy spectrum and the quantum numbers associated with the low-energy eigenstates. We propose the experimental realization of antiferromagnetic alternating spin chains using these graphene nanostructures, which result in ferrimagnetic systems whose ground state spin and degeneracy depend on the length of the chain. We identify a double degeneracy in the total spin quantum number $S$ of the first excited state in three-leg spin graphs (3-LSGs) and other heterospin nanostructures, which depends on both the number of sites and the spin species, and originates from the swapping transformation symmetry of the Hamiltonian. Numerical simulations indicate that this degeneracy remains largely robust for $N=7$ spin-1 3-LSGs under realistic perturbations present in experimental conditions.
title Graphene-based quantum heterospin graphs
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23360