Theory Department
Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics
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Polyakov, O. P., Stepanyuk, V. S.

Tuning an atomic switch on a surface with electric and magnetic fields
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 6, (18),pp 3698-3701 (2015)
Controllable switching an adatom position and its magnetization could lead to a single-atom memory. Our theoretical studies show that switching adatom between different surface sites by the quantum tunneling, discovered in several experiments, can be controlled by an external electric field. Switching a single spin by magnetic fields is found to be strongly site-dependent on a surface. This could enable to control a spin-dynamics of adatom.

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