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De Bruijckere, J.; Gehring, P.; Palacios-Corella, M.; Clemente León, Miguel; Coronado Miralles, Eugenio
Perfil; Paaske, J.; Hedegård, P.; Van der Zant, H. S. J.
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This document is a artículoDate2019
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It is known that the quantum mechanical ground state of a nanoscale junction has a significant impact on its electrical transport properties. This becomes particularly important in transistors consisting of a single molecule. Because of strong electron-electron interactions and the possibility of accessing ground states with high spins, these systems are eligible hosts of a current-blockade phenomenon called a ground-state spin blockade. This effect arises from the inability of a charge carrier to account for the spin difference required to enter the junction, as that process would violate the spin selection rules. Here, we present a direct experimental demonstration of a ground-state spin blockade in a high-spin single-molecule transistor. The measured transport characteristics of this device exhibit a complete suppression of resonant transport due to a ground-state spin difference of 3/2 between subsequent charge states. Strikingly, the blockade can be reversibly lifted by driving the system through a magnetic ground-state transition in one charge state, using the tunability offered by both magnetic and electric fields.
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De Bruijckere, J. Gehring, P. Palacios-Corella, M. Clemente León, Miguel Coronado Miralles, Eugenio Paaske, J. Hedegård, P. Van der Zant, H.S.J. 2019 Ground-State Spin Blockade in a Single-Molecule Junction Physical Review Letters 122 197701-1 197701-5 |
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.197701
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