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Scattering of electrons by localized spins is the ultimate process enabling electrical detection and control of the magnetic state of a spin-doped material. At the molecular scale, this scattering is mediated by the electronic orbitals hosting the spin. Here we report the selective excitation of a molecular spin by electrons tunneling through different molecular orbitals. Spatially-resolved tunneling spectra on iron porphyrins on Au(111) reveal that the inelastic spin excitation extends beyond the iron site. The inelastic features also change shape and symmetry along the molecule. Combining DFT simulations with a phenomenological scattering model, we show that the extension and lineshape variations of the inelastic signal are due to excitation pathways assisted by different frontier orbitals, each of them with a different degree of hybridization with the surface. By selecting the intramolecular site for electron injection, the relative weight of iron and pyrrole orbitals in the tunneling process is modified. In this way, the spin excitation mechanism, reflected by its spectral lineshape, changes depending on the degree of localization and energy alignment of the chosen molecular orbital.
We present a comprehensive study of the spin excitations - as measured by the dynamical spin structure factor $S(q,omega)$ - of the so-called block-magnetic state of low-dimensional orbital-selective Mott insulators. We realize this state via both a
We report on the fabrication and transport characterization of atomically-precise single molecule devices consisting of a magnetic porphyrin covalently wired by graphene nanoribbon electrodes. The tip of a scanning tunneling microscope was utilized t
Topological insulators represent a new quantum state of matter that are insulating in the bulk but metallic on the edge or surface. In the Dirac surface state, it is well-established that the electron spin is locked with the crystal momentum. Here we
We use co-tunneling spectroscopy to investigate spin-, orbital-, and spin-orbital Kondo transport in a strongly confined system of InAs double quantum dots (QDs) parallel-coupled to source and drain. In the one-electron transport regime, the higher s
In graphene spintronics, interaction of localized magnetic moments with the electron spins paves a new way to explore the underlying spin relaxation mechanism. A self-assembled layer of organic cobalt-porphyrin (CoPP) molecules on graphene provides a