Formation of pure two-electron triplet states in weakly coupled quantum dots attached to ferromagnetic leads

Abstract

Weakly coupled quantum dots in the Pauli spin blockade regime are considered with respect to spin-dependent transport. By attaching one half-metallic and one non-magnetic lead, the Pauli spin blockade if formed by a pure triplet state with spin moment $S_z=1$ or -1. Furthermore, additional spin blockade regimes emerge because of full occupation in states with opposite spin to that of the half-metallic lead.

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References in corpus (2)

• Pauli spin blockade in weakly coupled quantum dots
• Spin Blockade in Capacitively Coupled Quantum Dots

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