Anomalous Conductance Oscillations and Half-Metallicity in Atomic Ag-O Chains

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2008-05-23

arxiv.org/abs/0805.3718v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

5 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.096804

Using spin density functional theory we study the electronic and magnetic properties of atomically thin, suspended chains containing silver and oxygen atoms in an alternating sequence. Chains longer than 4 atoms develop a half-metallic ground state implying fully spin polarized charge carriers. The conductances of the chains exhibit weak even-odd oscillations around an anomalously low value of 0.1G_0 (G_0 = 2e^2h) which coincide with the averaged experimental conductance in the long chain limit. The unusual conductance properties are explained in terms of a resonating-chain model which takes the reflection probability and phase-shift of a single bulk-chain interface as the only input. The model also explains the conductance oscillations for other metallic chains.

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