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تسجيل مستخدم جديدUncovering the Triplet Ground State of Triangular Graphene Nanoflakes Engineered with Atomic Precision on a Metal Surface
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Graphene can develop large magnetic moments in custom crafted open-shell nanostructures such as triangulene, a triangular piece of graphene with zigzag edges. Current methods of engineering graphene nano-systems on surfaces succeeded in producing atomically precise open-shell structures, but demonstration of their net spin remains elusive to date. Here, we fabricate triangulene-like graphene systems and demonstrate that they possess a spin $S=1$ ground state. Scanning tunnelling spectroscopy identifies the fingerprint of an underscreened $S=1$ Kondo state on rev{these} flakes at low temperatures, signaling the dominant ferromagnetic interactions between two spins. Combined with simulations based on the meanfield Hubbard model, we show that this $S=1$ $pi$-paramagnetism is robust, and can be manipulated to a $S=1/2$ state by adding additional H-atoms to the radical sites. rev{Our results demonstrate that $pi$-paramagnetism of high-spin graphene flakes can survive on surfaces, opening the door to study the quantum behaviour of interacting $pi$-spins in graphene systems.
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