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Coulomb-promoted spintromechanics in magnetic shuttle devices

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2019-07-24 v2

Abstract

Exchange forces on the movable dot ("shuttle") in a magnetic shuttle device depend on the parity of the number of shuttling electrons. The performance of such a device can therefore be tuned by changing the strength UU of Coulomb correlations to block or unblock parity fluctuations. We show that by increasing UU the spintro-mechanics of the device crosses over, at U=Uc(T)U=U_c(T), from a mechanically stable regime to a regime of spin-induced shuttle instabilities. This is due to enhanced spin-dependent mechanical forces as parity fluctuations are reduced by a Coulomb blockade of tunneling and demonstrates that single-electron manipulation of single-spin controlled nano-mechanics is possible.

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@article{arxiv.1902.09067,
  title  = {Coulomb-promoted spintromechanics in magnetic shuttle devices},
  author = {Olya A. Ilinskaya and Danko Radic and Hee Chul Park and Ilya V. Krive and Robert I. Shekhter and Mats Jonson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.09067},
  year   = {2019}
}

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5 pages, 2 figures and a supplementary information file