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Y Kinoshita1, R Turanský2, J Brndiar2
1Department of Applied Physics, Osaka University , 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
Abstract:
We report on a low-temperature atomic force microscropy manipulation of Co atoms in ultrahigh vacuum on an oxidized copper surface in which the manipulated atom is kept delocalized above several surface unit cells over macroscopic times. The manipulation employed, in addition to the ubiquitous short-range tip-generated chemical forces, also long-range forces generated via Friedel oscillations of the metal charge density due to Co nanostructures prearranged on the surface by lateral manipulation. We show that our manipulation protocol requires mechanical control of the spin state of the Co atom.
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