Nanospintronics with carbon nanotubes

Abstract

One of the actual challenges of spintronics is the realization of a spin-transistor allowing to control spin transport through an electrostatic gate. In this review, we report on different experiments which demonstrate a gate control of spin transport in a carbon nanotube connected to ferromagnetic leads. We also discuss some theoretical approaches which can be used to analyze spin transport in these systems. We emphasize the roles of the gate-tunable quasi-bound states inside the nanotube and the coherent spin-dependent scattering at the interfaces between the nanotube and its ferromagnetic contacts.

35 pages, 15 figures, some figures in gif

References in corpus (12)

• Spin-charge separation and localization in one-dimension
• Kondo effect in quantum dots coupled to ferromagnetic leads
• NRG study of the Kondo effect in the presence of itinerant-electron ferromagnetism
• Four-electron shell structures and an interacting two-electron system in carbon nanotube quantum dots
• Nanospintronics with carbon nanotubes
• Gate-controlled spin-splitting in quantum dots with ferromagnetic leads in the Kondo regime
• Electronic Transport Spectroscopy of Carbon Nanotubes in a Magnetic Field
• Electronic excitation spectrum of metallic carbon nanotubes
• Nonequilibrium Kondo Effect in a Quantum Dot Coupled to Ferromagnetic Leads
• Stray-field-induced modification of coherent spin dynamics
• Rashba spin-orbit coupling and spin precession in carbon nanotubes
• Quantum dot with ferromagnetic leads: a density-matrix renormalization group study

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• Graphene Spin Transistor
• Nanospintronics with carbon nanotubes
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• Spectroscopy and critical temperature of diffusive superconducting/ferromagnetic hybrid structures with spin-active interfaces
• Theory of shot noise in single-walled metallic carbon nanotubes weakly coupled to nonmagnetic and ferromagnetic leads
• Transport through single-wall metallic carbon nanotubes in the cotunneling regime
• Conductance and current noise of a superconductor/ferromagnet quantum point contact
• Saturation of Spin-Polarized Current in Nanometer Scale Aluminum Grains
• Finite frequency noise of a superconductor/ferromagnet quantum point contact
• Towards a dephasing diode: asymmetric and geometric dephasing
• Multi-terminal spin-dependent transport in ballistic carbon nanotubes
• Modeling a Schottky-barrier carbon nanotube field-effect transistor with ferromagnetic contacts
• Magnetic and transport properties of the one-dimensional ferromagnetic Kondo lattice model with an impurity