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NATURE PHYSICS
卷 9, 期 12, 页码 801-805出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NPHYS2766
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- DFG [FOR 912]
- Foundation for Polish Science
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Superparamagnetism of magnetic adatoms and molecules-preferential alignment of their spins along an easy axis-is a useful effect for nanoscale applications as it prevents undesired spin reversal. The underlying magnetic anisotropy barrier-a quadrupolar energy splitting-originates from spin-orbit interaction and can nowadays be probed by electronic transport measurements. Here we predict that in a much broader class of systems, quantum dots with spins larger than 1/2, superparamagnetism can arise without spin-orbit interaction: by attaching them to ferromagnets, a quadrupolar spintronic exchange field is generated locally. It is observable by means of conductance measurements and leads to enhanced spin filtering even in a state with zero average spin. Analogously to the spintronic dipolar exchange field, giving rise to a local spin torque, the effect is susceptible to electric control and increases with tunnel coupling as well as with spin polarization.
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