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The makings of a Hund's metal

The basic building block of a Hund's metal can be constructed from an iron atom adsorbed on a platinum surface and can be probed with a scanning tunnelling microscope.

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Figure 1: Hund's rules and electron hopping.

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Hirjibehedin, C. The makings of a Hund's metal. Nature Nanotech 10, 914–915 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2015.225

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