First-principles investigation of spin polarized conductance in atomic carbon wire

Details First-principles investigation of spin polarized conductance in atomic carbon wire First-principles investigation of spin polarized conductance in atomic carbon wire

2004-08-20

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0408462v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

revtex, 6 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.72.064416

We analyze spin-dependent energetics and conductance for one dimensional (1D) atomic carbon wires consisting of terminal magnetic (Co) and interior nonmagnetic (C) atoms sandwiched between gold electrodes, obtained employing first-principles gradient corrected density functional theory and Landauer's formalism for conductance. Wires containing an even number of interior carbon atoms are found to be acetylenic with sigma-pi bonding patterns, while cumulene structures are seen in wires containing odd number of interior carbon atoms, as a result of strong pi-conjugation. Ground states of carbon wires containing up to 13 C atoms are found to have anti-parallel spin configurations of the two terminal Co atoms, while the 14 C wire has a parallel Co spin configuration in the ground state. The stability of the anti-ferromagnetic state in the wires is ascribed to a super-exchange effect. For the cumulenic wires this effect is constant for all wire lengths. For the acetylenic wires, the super-exchange effect diminishes as the wire length increases, going to zero for the atomic wire containing 14 carbon atoms. Conductance calculations at the zero bias limit show spin-valve behavior, with the parallel Co spin configuration state giving higher conductance than the corresponding anti-parallel state, and a non-monotonic variation of conductance with the length of the wires for both spin configurations.

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