Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2007-03-28
New Journal of Physics 9 (2007) 348
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
39 pages, 19 figures; revised final published version
Scientific paper
10.1088/1367-2630/9/9/348
We investigate linear and nonlinear transport in interacting single wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) that are weakly attached to ferromagnetic leads. For the reduced density matrix of a SWCNT quantum dot, equations of motion which account for an arbitrarily vectored polarisation of the contacts are derived. We focus on the case of large diameter nanotubes where exchange effects emerging from short-ranged processes can be excluded and the four-electron periodicity at low bias can be observed. This yields in principle four distinct resonant tunnelling regimes, but due to symmetries in the involved groundstates, each two possess a mirror-symmetry. With a non-collinear configuration, we recover at the 4N <-> 4N+1 / 4N+3 <-> 4N resonances the analytical results known for the angular dependence of the conductance of a single level quantum dot or a metallic island. The two other cases are treated numerically and show on the first glance similar, yet not analytically describable dependences. In the nonlinear regime, negative differential conductance features occur for non-collinear lead magnetisations.
grifoni Milena
Koller Sonja
Mayrhofer Leonhard
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