Coulomb-promoted spintromechanics in magnetic shuttle devices

• Exchange forces on the movable dot ("shuttle") in a magnetic shuttle device depend on the parity of the number of shuttling electrons. The performance of such a device can therefore be tuned by changing the strength U of Coulomb correlations to block or unblock parity fluctuations. We show that by increasing U the spintromechanics of the device crosses over, at U = U-c(T), from a mechanically stable regime to a regime of spin-induced shuttle instabilities (neglecting electric forces). This is due to enhanced spin-dependent mechanical forces as parity fluctuations are reduced by a Coulomb blockade of tunneling and demonstrates that single-electron manipulation of single-spin controlled nanomechanics is possible.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences (hsv//eng)

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Materials Science

Physics

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