Moiré tuning of spin excitations: Individual Fe atoms on MoS${}_2$/Au(111)

Abstract

Magnetic adatoms on surfaces are exchange coupled to their environment, inducing fast relaxation of excited spin states and decoherence. These interactions can be suppressed by inserting decoupling layers between the magnetic adsorbate and the metallic substrate. Using low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy, we investigate the magnetic properties of single Fe atoms on Au(111) covered by a monolayer of MoS${}_2$ and explore the influence of the moiré structure on the spin excitation spectra. Fe adatoms absorbed at minima of the moiré structure exhibit almost pure inelastic spin excitations. Kondo correlations develop for adsorption sites off the moiré minimum, culminating in fully developed Kondo resonances on moiré maxima. The increase in Kondo correlations is accompanied by a decrease in the single-ion anisotropy, which we rationalize by poor-person's scaling. Local variations in the tunneling spectra indicate pronounced interference between tunneling paths involving the spin-carrying orbitals and a hybrid Fe-S orbital, which forms despite the nominally inert nature of the terminating S layer.

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