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Spin-dependent shot noise of inelastic transport through molecular quantum dots

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2007-05-23 v4

Abstract

Here we present a theoretical analysis of the effect of inelastic electron scattering on spin-dependent transport characteristics (conductance, current-voltage dependence, magnetoresistance, shot noise spectrum, Fano factor) for magnetic nanojunction. Such device is composed of molecular quantum dot (with discrete energy levels)connected to ferromagnetic electrodes (treated within the wide-band approximation), where molecular vibrations are modeled as dispersionless phonons. Non-perturbative computational scheme, used in this work, is based on the Green's function theory within the framework of mapping technique (GFT-MT) which transforms the many-body electron-phonon interaction problem into a single-electron multi-channel scattering problem. The consequence of the localized electron-phonon coupling is polaron formation. It is shown that polaron shift and additional peaks in the transmission function completely change the shape of considered transport characteristics.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0306174,
  title  = {Spin-dependent shot noise of inelastic transport through molecular quantum dots},
  author = {Kamil Walczak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0306174},
  year   = {2007}
}

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13 pages, 5 figures