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Writing and reading spin Writing and reading spin information on mobile electronic information on mobile electronic qubits qubits Symposium on Spin Physics and Nanomagnetism =Chudnovsky-Fest, Friday, March 13, 2009 Amnon Aharony Ora Entin-Wohlman (BGU) Yasuhiro Tokura (NTT) Shingo Katsumoto (ISSP) Physics Department and Ilse Katz Nano center

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Writing and reading spin information on mobile electronic qubits. Amnon Aharony. Physics Department and Ilse Katz Nano center. Ora Entin-Wohlman (BGU) Yasuhiro Tokura (NTT) Shingo Katsumoto (ISSP). - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Writing and reading spin information Writing and reading spin information on mobile electronic qubitson mobile electronic qubits

Symposium on Spin Physics and Nanomagnetism =Chudnovsky-Fest, Friday, March 13, 2009

Amnon Aharony

Ora Entin-Wohlman (BGU) Yasuhiro Tokura (NTT) Shingo Katsumoto (ISSP)

Physics Department and Ilse Katz Nano center

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Late 70ies: amorphous magnetism

2001 :collaboration on magnetic molecules

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Outline

Spintronics, quantum computing

Spin-Orbit interaction

Spin field effect transistor

Spin filter: writing information on electron spinor

Quantum networks

Our spin filter: simple exercise in quantum mechanics

Our spin ‘reader’: measuring spinor via conductance

Conclusions

Writing and reading spin information on Writing and reading spin information on mobile electronic qubitsmobile electronic qubits

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Alternative to electronics: spintronics

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Quantum mechanics:

Particle-wave duality

Schrödinger’s wave equation

Dirac’s equation: spin and spinor

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Spin-orbit interactions

Entin-Wohlman, Gefen, Meir,Oreg (1989, 1992)

Dirac::

Aharonov-Casher

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Spin-orbit interactions

Dirac::

Rashba: 2DEG, confined to a plane by an asymmetric potential along z:

Strength of Rashba term can be tuned by gate voltage!

A spinor entering from the leftand travelling a distance L along the x-axiswill be multiplied by the 2x2 unitary matrix

Rotation of spin direction around y-axis

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Spin field effect transistor

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Tunable with gate voltage

Can use at low gate voltages!

Das and Datta (1990): The Spin field effect transistor

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Conventional computers: information in bits,

0 or 1, +1 or -1, or

Quantum computers: information in Qubits,

Electron described by spinor: 1,00,1

Complex numbers

Spinor is an eigenvector of , the spin component along

Quantum computers

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‘Writing’ on spinor: Spin filtering:

Work with mobile electrons ,Generate spin-polarized current out of an unpolarized source

filterpolarized electrons

unpolarized electrons

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Textbook method: Stern-Gerlach splitting

Based on Zeeman splitting ,Requires large fields, separation of beams not easy due to uncertainty

‘Writing’ on spinor: Spin filtering:

Work with mobile electrons ,Generate spin-polarized current out of an unpolarized source

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Spin filtering:

Generate spin-polarized current out of an unpolarized source

Earlier work: usually calculate spin-dependent conductance,and generate partial polarization ,which varies with parameters.

Our aim: obtain full polarization ,in a tunable direction quantum networks

filterUnpolarized

electronspolarized electrons

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Earlier work concentrated on spin-dependent conductance ,averaged over electron energies, did not concentrate on spin filtering

Our aim: use simplest quasi-1D model to generate spin filtering

We use tight-binding quantum networks,

Our main conclusion: can achieve full filtering provided we use both spin-orbit and Aharonov-Bohm

2-component spinor at node u

2x2 unitary matrix, representing hopping from v to u

Continuum versus tight-binding networks :AA + Ora Entin-Wohlman, J. Phys. Chem. (in press); ArXiv: 0807.4088

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4 solutions, which appear in pairs ,

Real q: ’running’ solution .Complex q: evanescent solution.

Ballistic conductance = g= number of solutions whichrun from left to right: g= 0, 1 or 2

For a broad range of parameters ,there is only one running solution, and then the electrons are fully polarized!

General solution for chain of diamonds:

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Problems:

How to realize long chain?

How to read information from spinor?

Single diamond

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Single diamond

The rest of the talk described unpublished work on the transmissionthrough a single diamond, with both Rashba spin-orbit and Aharonov-Bohmflux.

Results show that there exist lines in the plane connecting the above two interactions, for which the outgoing electrons have unique spin directions,which can be tuned by the electric and magnetic fields. Thus, this is anideal spin filter.

When one sends fully polarized electrons into the single diamond, the outgoing current depends on the angle between this polarization and the special spin-direction which characterizes the filter. Appropriatetuning then allows the reading of the incoming polarization byMeasuring currents..

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Conclusions:

Need both Aharonov-Bohm and spin-orbit to Obtain full filtering, with unique spin.

Spin is sensitive to electric and magneticfields: small changes in parameters switch the direction of the filtered spin.

Can work at fixed small magnetic field, with small changes in electric field or in electron energy.

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More to do:

Add Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction?

Add Zeeman field – Aharonov-Casher? Berry phase?

Dissipation: stochastic noise? phonons? Dephasing?

Add e-e interactions?

How can we combine beams to perform computing?

Postdoc positions

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