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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 121, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.027201
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- Institute of Basic Science [IBS-R027-D1]
- Swiss National Science Foundation [PZ00P2_167965]
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We use spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy to demonstrate that Ho atoms on magnesium oxide exhibit a coercive field of more than 8 T and magnetic bistability for many minutes, both at 35 K. The first spontaneous magnetization reversal events are recorded at 45 K, for which the metastable state relaxes in an external field of 8 T. The transverse magnetic anisotropy energy is estimated from magnetic field and bias voltage dependent switching rates at 4.3 K. Our measurements constrain the possible ground state of Ho single-atom magnets to either J(z) = 7 or 8, both compatible with magnetic bistability at fields larger than 10 mT.
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