RT Journal Article
T1 Thermal decoherence and disorder effects on chiral-induced spin selectivity
A1 Díaz Garcia, Elena
A1 Domínguez-Adame Acosta, Francisco
A1 Gutierrez, Rafael
A1 Cuniberti, Gianaurelio
A1 Mujica, Vladimiro
AB We use a nonlinear master equation formalism to account for thermal and disorder effects on spin-dependent electron transport in helical organic molecules coupled to two ideal leads. The inclusion of these two effects has important consequences in understanding the observed length and temperature dependence of spin polarization in experiments, which cannot be accounted for in a purely coherent tunneling model. Our approach considers a tight-binding helical Hamiltonian with disordered onsite energies to describe the resulting electronic states when low-frequency interacting modes break the electron coherence. The high-frequency fluctuating counterpart of these interactions, typical of intramolecular modes, is included by means of temperature-dependent thermally activated transfer probabilities in the master equation, which lead to hopping between localized states. We focus on the spin-dependent conductance and the spin-polarization in the linear regime (low voltage) which are analyzed as a function of the molecular length and the temperature of the system. Our results at room temperature agree well with experiments because our model predicts that the degree of spin polarization increases for longer molecules. Also, this effect is temperature-dependent because thermal excitation competes with disorder-induced Anderson localization. We conclude that a transport mechanism based on thermally activated hopping in a disordered system can account for the unexpected behavior of the spin polarization.
PB Amer Chemical Soc
SN 1948-7185
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/18665
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/18665
LA eng
NO ©Amer Chemical SocThe authors thank Ron Naaman and Christopher Gaul for very enlightening discussions. This work has been partly supported by Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad–MINECO (Grant MAT2016-75955). E. D. was supported by a Jossé Castillejo post-doctoral fellowship from MINECO. R. G. and G. C. acknowledge financial support from the Volkswagen Stiftung (grants No. 88366). This work was also partly supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) within the Cluster of Excellence ”Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden”. V. M. acknowledges financial support from the DRESDEN Fellowship Programme.
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO)
NO Volkswagen Stiftung
NO German Research Foundation (DFG) within the Cluster of Excellence "Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden"
NO DRESDEN Fellowship Programme
DS Docta Complutense
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