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We review different electron transport methods to probe the magnetic properties, such as the magnetic anisotropy, of an individual Fe4 SMM. The different approaches comprise first and higher order transport through the molecule. Gate…

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We propose a quantum processor based upon single-molecule magnets and spin transfer torque described by PT-symmetric quantum mechanics. In recent years PT-symmetric Hamiltonians have been used to obtain stability thresholds of various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Aleix Bou Comas , Eugene M. Chudnovsky , Javier Tejada

In a nanomagnet (whose total spin S< 1000), very small polarized currents can lead to magnetic reversal. Treating on the same footing the transport and magnetic properties of a nanomagnet connected to magnetic leads via tunneling barriers,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 X. Waintal , O. Parcollet

First principles calculations show that electric fields applied to ferromagnets generate spin currents flowing perpendicularly to the electric field. Reduced symmetry in these ferromagnets enables a wide variety of such spin currents.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 V. P. Amin , Junwen Li , M. D. Stiles , P. M. Haney

Magnetic $p$-$n$ junction diodes are fabricated to investigate spin-polarized electron transport. The injection of spin-polarized electrons in a semiconductor is achieved by driving a current from a ferromagnetic injector (Fe), into a bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peifeng Chen , Juergen Moser , Philipp Kotissek , Janusz Sadowski , Marcus Zenger , Dieter Weiss , Werner Wegscheider

Spin currents are used to write information in magnetic random access memory (MRAM) devices by switching the magnetization direction of one of the ferromagnetic electrodes of a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) nanopillar. Different physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Christopher Safranski , Jonathan Z. Sun , Andrew D. Kent

Recently it has been predicted that a spin-polarized electrical current perpendicular-to-plane (CPP) directly flowing through a magnetic element can induce magnetization switching through spin-momentum transfer. In this letter, the first…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Jiang , S. Abe , T. Ochiai , T. Nozaki , A. Hirohata , N. Tezuka , K. Inomata

Recent progress in physics on spin dependent transport in magnetic nanostructures is reviewed. Special attention is paid on the spin accumulation and spin current caused by spin injection into non-magnetic metals and semiconductors and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Maekawa

We discuss a spin-transfer torque device, where the role of the soft ferromagnetic layer is played by a magnetic particle or a magnetic molecule, in weak tunnel contact with two spin polarized leads. We investigate if the magnetization of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-19 P. Gartland , D. Davidovic

Spin-orbitronics, based on both spin and orbital angular momentum, presents a promising pathway for energy-efficient memory and logic devices. Recent studies have demonstrated the emergence of orbital currents in light transition metals…

A novel scheme for spin filters is proposed by studying the coherent transport of electrons through the quantum wires with lateral magnetic modulations. Unlike other schemes in the literature, the modulation in our scheme is much weaker…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Zhou , Q. W. Shi , M. W. Wu

Motivated by experimental reports on chirality induced spin selectivity, we investigate a minimal model that allows us to calculate the charge and spin conductances through helical molecules analytically. The spin-orbit interaction is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-29 Richard Korytár , Jan M. van Ruitenbeek , Ferdinand Evers

We theoretically show how the spin orientation of a single magnetic adatom can be controlled by spin polarized electrons in a scanning tunneling microscope configuration. The underlying physical mechanism is spin assisted inelastic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-11 F. Delgado , J. J. Palacios , J. Fernandez-Rossier

We consider electrical transport through molecules with Heisenberg-coupled spins arranged in a ring structure in the presence of an easy-axis anisotropy. The molecules are coupled to two metallic leads and a gate. In the charged state of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jörg Lehmann , Daniel Loss

Spin-polarized current effect is studied on the static and dynamic magnetization of the antiferromagnet in a ferromagnet - antiferromagnet nanojunction. The macrospin approximation is generalized to antiferromagnets. Canted…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-13 E. M. Epshtein , Yu. V. Gulyaev , P. E. Zilberman

In this work, we study the conductance and the thermoelectric properties of a quantum dot embedded between two metallic leads with a side-coupled triple quantum dot molecule under a magnetic field. We focus on the spin polarization and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-16 J. P. Ramos-Andrade , F. J. Peña , A. González , O. Ávalos-Ovando , P. A. Orellana

A system exhibiting multiple simultaneously broken symmetries offers the opportunity to influence physical phenomena such as tunneling currents by means of external control parameters. Time-reversal symmetry and inversion symmetry are both…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Linder , M. S. Gronsleth , A. Sudbo

The finite-frequency transport properties of a large-spin molecule attached to ferromagnetic contacts are studied theoretically in the Kondo regime. The focus is on the behavior of the dynamical conductance in the linear response regime,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-03 Anna Płomińska , Maciej Misiorny , Ireneusz Weymann

Spin orbit torque (SOT) has been considered as one of the promising technologies for the next-generation magnetic random access memory (MRAM). So far, SOT has been widely utilized for inducing various modes of magnetization switching.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 Tongxi Liu , Zhaohao Wang , Min Wang , Chao Wang , Bi Wu , Weiqiang Liu , Weisheng Zhao

We study the dynamics of spin valves consisting of two layers of magnetic insulators separated by a normal metal in the macrospin model. A current through the spacer generates a spin Hall current that can actuate the magnetization via the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-19 Hans Skarsvåg , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Arne Brataas