Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2008-01-25
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
7 pages, 7 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.78.195405
We present an ab initio study of spin dependent transport in armchair carbon nanotubes with transition metal adsorbates, iron or vanadium. We neglect the effect of tube curvature and model the nanotube by graphene with periodic boundary conditions. A density functional theory based nonequilibrium Green's function method is used to compute the electronic structure and zero-bias conductance. The presence of the adsorbate causes a strong scattering of electrons of one spin type only. The scattering is shown to be due to coupling of the two armchair band states to the metal 3d orbitals with matching symmetry causing Fano resonances appearing as dips in the transmission function. The spin type (majority/minority) being scattered depends on the adsorbate and is explained in terms of d-state filling. The results are qualitatively reproduced using a simple tight-binding model, which is then used to investigate the dependence of the transmission on the nanotube width. We find a decrease in the width of the transmission dip as the tube-size increases.
Brandbyge Mads
Fürst Joachim A.
Jauho Antti-Pekka
Stokbro Kurt
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