IMX Colloquium - Designer Quantum Materials from Carbon

Speaker: Prof. Roman Fasel, EMPA, Zürich Organiser: Prof. Gregor Jotzu, Prof. Esther Amstad &amp; Prof. Fabien Sorin <p>Atomically precise carbon nanostructures offer a new route to quantum systems built from the bottom up. By combining molecular design, on-surface synthesis and scanning probe microscopy, we can control atomic structure, electronic states and magnetic interactions within the same platform.<br> In this talk, I will follow the path from bottom-up synthesized graphene nanoribbons [1,2] to open-shell nanographenes [3] and designer quantum spin systems [4]. I will discuss how atomic structure can determine electronic topology and how molecular spins can be coupled into well-defined quantum chain