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Ag和Au原子尺寸接触在强磁场下的导电性

Conductance of atomic size contacts of Ag and Au at high magnetic fields

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid(马德里自治大学);Universidad de Alicante(阿利坎特大学)

Beilun Wu, Andrés Martínez, Paula Obladen, Marta Fernández-Lomana, Edwin Herrera, Carlos Sabater, Juan José Palacios, Isabel Guillamón, Hermann Suderow

AI总结:

研究了Ag和Au原子尺寸接触在强磁场下的导电性,发现单通道导电性随磁场变化,并探讨了磁响应在接触跃迁中的作用。

摘要:

在原子尺度上电子导电可以由Landauer的理论来描述。在单个原子点接触中,如金和银等贵金属,两个电极之间只有一个导电通道开放,导电性非常接近量子导电度$G \approx G_0=\frac{2e^2}{h}$,其中因子2来自于自旋简并性。原子尺寸接触的磁导电性已研究了多种系统,揭示了局部Kondo屏蔽、磁序和自旋极化电流。然而,这些研究大多是在具有多个开放导电通道的材料中进行的,其中$G$不同于$G_0$。实现具有单个开放通道的磁性导体仍然难以实现。在这里,我们报告了在20特斯拉磁场下单通道金和银原子尺寸接触的电子导电性测量。我们观察到导电性$G$的降低,在许多金接触中,20特斯拉时降低了约15%。我们进行了计算并发现,纯银和金没有表现出强磁场下$G$的明显变化,这与较小磁场下的先前结果一致。然而,我们还发现,附着在接触附近残余的O₂分子产生诱导自旋极化电流,导致$G$的降低。我们讨论了电极磁响应在接触跃迁中的作用。我们的结果表明,通过结合贵金属和磁性活性分子系统,可以构建具有显著磁响应的单通道原子尺寸导体。

英文摘要:

Electronic conduction at the atomic scale can be described by Landauer's formalism. In single atom point contacts of noble metals like Au and Ag, there is just one channel open between both electrodes and the conductance is very close to the quantum of conductance $G \approx G_0=\frac{2e^2}{h}$, with the factor of two coming from spin degeneracy. The magnetoconductivity of atomic size contacts has been studied for numerous systems, unveiling local Kondo screening, magnetic order and spin-polarized currents. However, these have been mostly performed in elements with multiple open conduction channels where $G$ differs from $G_0$. The realization of a magnetically active conductor with a single open channel remains difficult to achieve. Here we present measurements of the electronic conductance of single channel Au and Ag atomic-size contacts in magnetic fields up to 20 Tesla. We observe a decrease in $G$ which goes up to about 15% in many Au contacts at 20 T. We perform calculations and find that pure Ag and Au do not present a strong field dependence of $G$, in agreement with previous results at smaller magnetic fields. We also find, however, that residual O$_2$ molecules attached close to the contact produce an an induced spin-polarized current, which leads to a decrease in $G$. We discuss the role of the magnetic response of the electrodes in the jump to contact. Our results suggest that single channel atomic size conductors with a sizeable response to a magnetic field can be built by combining noble metals and magnetically active molecular systems.

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