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Spin-vibronics in interacting nonmagnetic molecular nanojunctions

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-07-29 v2

Abstract

We show that in the presence of ferromagnetic electronic reservoirs and spin-dependent tunnel couplings, molecular vibrations in nonmagnetic single molecular transistors induce an effective intramolecular exchange magnetic field. It generates a finite spin-accumulation and -precession for the electrons confined on the molecular bridge and occurs under (non)equilibrium conditions. The effective exchange magnetic field is calculated here to lowest order in the tunnel coupling for a nonequilibrium transport setup. Coulomb interaction between electrons is taken into account as well as a finite electron-phonon coupling. We show that for realistic physical parameters, an effective spin-phonon coupling emerges. It is induced by quantum many-body interactions, which are either electron-phonon or Coulomb-like. We investigate the precession and accumulation of the confined spins as function of bias- and gate-voltages as well as their dependence on the angle enclosed by the magnetizations between the left and right reservoir.

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@article{arxiv.1505.03361,
  title  = {Spin-vibronics in interacting nonmagnetic molecular nanojunctions},
  author = {S. Weiss and J. Brüggemann and M. Thorwart},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.03361},
  year   = {2015}
}

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