Generating and reversing spin accumulation by temperature gradient in a quantum dot attached to ferromagnetic leads |
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| Authors: | Bai Xu-Fang Chi Feng Zheng Jun Li Yi-Nan |
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| Affiliation: | a College of Physics and Electronic Information, Inner Mongolia National University, Tongliao 028043, China;b College of Engineering, Bohai University, Jinzhou 121013, China;c SKLSM, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China |
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| Abstract: | We propose to generate and reverse the spin accumulation in a quantum dot (QD) by using the temperature difference between the two ferromagnetic leads connected to the dot. The electrons are driven purely by the temperature gradient in the absence of electric bias and magnetic field. In the Coulomb blockade regime, we find two ways to reverse the spin accumulation. One is by adjusting the QD energy level with a fixed temperature gradient, and the other is by reversing the temperature gradient direction for a fixed value of the dot level. The spin accumulation in the QD can be enhanced by the magnitudes of both the leads' spin polarization and the asymmetry of the dot--lead coupling strengths. The present device is quite simple, and the obtained results may have practical usage in spintronics or quantum information processing. |
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| Keywords: | quantum dot temperature gradient spin accumulation ferromagnetic leads |
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