Photo-spintronics of spin-orbit active electric weak links

Robert I. Shekhter; Ora Entin-Wohlman; Mats Jonson; A. Aharony

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Photo-spintronics of spin-orbit active electric weak links

Robert I. Shekhter, Ora Entin-Wohlman, Mats Jonson^*, A. Aharony

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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 language	English
Pages (from-to)	910-913
Number of pages	4
Journal	Low Temperature Physics
Volume	43
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5001288
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2017

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