Real-space imaging of dispersive triplon excitations in engineered quantum magnets

24 Jan 2023  ·  Robert Drost, Shawulienu Kezilebieke, Jose Lado, Peter Liljeroth ·

Quantum magnets provide a powerful platform to explore complex quantum many-body phenomena. One example is triplon excitations, exotic many-body modes emerging from deconfined singlet-triplet transitions with no single particle analog. Triplons are challenging to observe in conventional materials, as the energy scales of singlet-triplet transitions are associated with Hund's energy and are dramatically larger than the typical bandwidth of spin fluctuations. We engineer a minimal quantum magnet from organic molecules and demonstrate the emergence of dispersive triplon modes in one- and two-dimensional assemblies probed with scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy. We show the variable bandwidth of triplon excitations in these two different geometries. Our results provide the first demonstration of dispersive triplon excitations from a real-space measurement, suggesting their potential engineering to realize exotic many-body phenomena in quantum magnets without breaking time-reversal symmetry.

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Strongly Correlated Electrons Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics