Wednesday, March 20, 2013

1303.4184 (Nina Winkler et al.)

Theory of spin pumping through an interacting quantum dot tunnel coupled
to a ferromagnet with time-dependent magnetization
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Nina Winkler, Michele Governale, Jürgen König
We investigate two schemes for pumping spin adiabatically from a ferromagnet through an interacting quantum dot into a normal lead, which exploit the possibility to vary in time the ferromagnet's magnetization, either its amplitude or its direction. For this purpose, we extend a diagrammatic real-time technique for pumping to situations in which the leads' properties are time dependent. In the first scheme, the time-dependent magnetization amplitude is combined with a time-dependent level position of the quantum dot to establish both a charge and a spin current. The second scheme uses a uniform rotation of the ferromagnet's magnetization direction to generate a pure spin current without a charge current. We discuss the influence of an interaction-induced exchange field on the pumping characteristics.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.4184

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