Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 76, Number 6, December 2006
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Page(s) | 1200 - 1206 | |
Section | Interdisciplinary physics and related areas of science and technology | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2006-10398-7 | |
Published online | 23 November 2006 |
Cotunneling through two-level quantum dots weakly coupled to ferromagnetic leads
Department of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University - 61-614 Poznań, Poland
Received:
13
July
2006
Accepted:
27
October
2006
The spin-polarized transport through two-level quantum dots weakly coupled to ferromagnetic leads is considered theoretically in the Coulomb blockade regime. It is assumed that the dot is doubly occupied, so that the current flows due to cotunneling through singlet and triplet states of the dot. It is shown that transport characteristics strongly depend on the ground state of the quantum dot. If the ground state is a singlet, differential conductance (G) displays a broad minimum at low bias voltage, while tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) is given by the Julliere value. If the ground state of the system is a triplet, there is a maximum in differential conductance at zero bias when the leads form the antiparallel configuration. The maximum is accompanied by a minimum in TMR. The different behavior of G and TMR may thus help to determine the ground state of the dot and the energy difference between the singlet and triplet states.
PACS: 85.75.-d – Magnetoelectronics; spintronics: devices exploiting spin polarized transport or integrated magnetic fields / 73.63.Kv – Quantum dots / 73.23.Hk – Coulomb blockade; single-electron tunneling
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