Photo-spintronics of spin-orbit active electric weak links

R. I. Shekhter, O. Entin-Wohlman, M. Jonson*, A. Aharony

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Abstract

We show that a carbon nanotube can serve as a functional electric weak link performing photospintronic transduction. A spin current, facilitated by strong spin-orbit interactions in the nanotube and not accompanied by a charge current, is induced in a device containing the nanotube weak link by circularly polarized microwaves. Nanomechanical tuning of the photo-spintronic transduction can be achieved due to the sensitivity of the spinorbit interaction to geometrical deformations of the weak link.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)910-913
Number of pages4
JournalLow Temperature Physics
Volume43
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Aug 2017

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