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 U of Coulomb correlations to block or unblock parity fluctuations. We show that by increasing U the spintro-mechanics of the device crosses over, at U=Uc(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.
@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