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Single-ion magnetic anisotropy in molecular magnets leads to spin flip excitations that can be measured by inelastic scanning tunneling microscope (STM) spectroscopy. Here I present a semi ab initio scheme to compute the spectral features associated with inelastic spin flip excitations and Kondo effect of single molecular magnets. To this end density functional theory calculations of the molecule on the substrate are combined with more sophisticated many-body techniques for solving the Anderson impurity problem of the spin-carrying orbitals of the magnetic molecule coupled to the rest of the system, containing a phenomenological magnetic anisotropy term. For calculating the STM spectra an exact expression for the dI/dV in the ideal STM limit, when the coupling to the STM tip becomes negligibly small, is derived. In this limit the dI/dV is simply related to the spectral function of the molecule-substrate system. For the case of an Fe porphyrin molecule on the Au(111) substrate, the calculated STM spectra are in good agreement with recently measured STM spectra, showing the typical step features at finite bias associated with spin flip excitation of a spin-1 quantum magnet. For the case of Kondo effect in Mn porphyrin on Au(111), the agreement with the experimental spectra is not as good due to the neglect of quantum interference in the tunneling.
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