RT Journal Article
T1 Contact effects in spin transport along double-helical molecules
A1 Ai-Min, Guo
A1 Díaz García, Elena
A1 Gaul, Christopher
A1 Gutierrez, R.
A1 Domínguez-Adame Acosta, Francisco
A1 Cuniberti, G.
A1 Sun, Qing-feng
AB We report on spin transport along double-helical molecular systems by considering various contact configurations and asymmetries between the two helical strands in the regime of completely coherent charge transport. Our results reveal that no spin polarization appears in two-terminal molecular devices when coupled to one-dimensional electrodes. The same holds in the case of finite-width electrodes if there is a bottleneck of one single site in the system electrode-molecule-electrode. Then, additional dephasing is necessary to induce spin-filtering effects. In contrast, nonzero spin polarization is found in molecular devices with multiple terminals or with two finite-width electrodes, each of them connected to more than one site of the molecule. The magnitude of spin polarization can be enhanced by increasing the asymmetry between the two strands. We point out that the spin-filtering effects could emerge in double-helical molecular devices at low temperature without dephasing by a proper choice of the electrode number and the connection between the molecule and the electrodes.
PB American Physical Society
SN 1098-0121
YR 2014
FD 2014-04-28
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/34002
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/34002
LA eng
NO © 2014 American Physical Society.This work was supported by the DAAD (54367888), by NBRP of China (2012CB921303), by MINECO (Grants No. PRI-AIBDE-2011-0.927 and No. MAT 2010-17180), by NSFChina under Grant No. 11274364, and by PDSF-China under Grant No. 2013M540153. We acknowledge support from the German Excellence Initiative: Cluster of Excellence EXC 1056 “Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden” (cfAED). A.M.G. and E.D. contributed equally to this work.
NO MINECO
NO DAAD
NO NBRP of China
NO NSF-China
NO PDSF-China
NO cfAED
DS Docta Complutense
RD 30 dic 2025