Rectification of spin currents in spin chains

Details Rectification of spin currents in spin chains Rectification of spin currents in spin chains

2011-02-23

arxiv.org/abs/1102.4801v2

Phys. Rev. B84: 024402,2011

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

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We study spin transport in nonitinerant one-dimensional quantum spin chains. Motivated by possible applications in spintronics, we consider rectification effects in both ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic systems. We find that the crucial ingredients in designing a system that displays a nonzero rectification current are an anisotropy in the exchange interaction of the spin chain combined with an offset magnetic field. For both ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic systems we can exploit the gap in the excitation spectrum that is created by a bulk anisotropy to obtain a measurable rectification effect at realistic magnetic fields. For antiferromagnetic systems we also find that we can achieve a similar effect by introducing a magnetic impurity, obtained by altering two neighboring bonds in the spin Hamiltonian.

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