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Spin-polarized transport induced by spin-pumping in a Rashba ring

F Liang1, Y H Yang1, J Wang1,2 and K S Chan2

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The Keldysh Green's function method is employed to study spin-dependent electron transport through a Rashba ring with a quantum dot (QD) embedded in one of its arms. Zero charge bias is applied on the system while a rotating magnetic field is considered in the QD to pump pure spin current. The Rashba spin–orbital coupling (RSOC) can cause a spin precession phase of the electron passing through the ring, so that the quantum interference in the ring can lead to a spin-polarized charge current flowing in the leads and the arm without a QD, whereas only pure spin current is flowing in the other arm with a QD. It is shown that for low frequency ω of the rotating magnetic field, the pumped charge current is proportional to ω unlike the charge current produced by mono-parametric quantum charge pumping, which is usually proportional to ω2. Moreover, the magnitude, the direction, as well as the spin-polarization of the charge current can be controlled by tuning the device parameters such as the QD energy level, the RSOC strength, and the strength of the electron tunneling between the leads and the QD. Hence the studied device may serve as a generating source for tunable spin-polarized current in the spintronics field.


PACS

72.25.Mk Spin transport through interfaces

73.63.Kv Quantum dots

73.40.Gk Tunneling

Subjects

Condensed matter: electrical, magnetic and optical

Surfaces, interfaces and thin films

Nanoscale science and low-D systems

Dates

Issue 48 (2 December 2009)

Received 3 September 2009, in final form 14 October 2009

Published 6 November 2009



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