Chapter Three : Electronic Transport as a Driver for Self-Interaction-Corrected Methods

• While spintronics often investigates striking collective spin e ects in large systems, a very important research direction deals with spin-dependent phenomena in nanostructures, reaching the extreme of a single spin conned in a quantum dot, in a molecule, or localized on an impurity or dopant. The issue considered in this chapter involves taking this extreme to the nanoscale and the quest to use rst-principles methods to predict and control the behavior of a few \spins" (down to 1 spin) when they are placed in an interesting environment. Particular interest is on environments for which addressing these systems with external elds and/or electric or spin currents is possible. The realization of such systems, including those that consist of a core of a few transition-metal (TM) atoms carrying a spin, connected and exchanged-coupled through bridging oxo-ligands has been due to work by many experimental researchers at the interface of atomic, molecular and condensed matter physics. This chapter addresses computational problems associated with understanding the behaviors of nanoand molecular-scale spin systems and reports on how the computational complexity increases when such systems are used for elements of electron transport devices. Especially for cases where these elements are attached to substrates with electronegativities that are very di erent than the molecule, or for coulomb blockade systems, or for cases where the spin-ordering within the molecules is weakly antiferromagnetic, the delocalization error in DFT is particularly problematic and one which requires solutions, such as self-interaction corrections, to move forward. We highlight the intersecting elds of spin-ordered nanoscale molecular magnets, electron transport, and coulomb blockade and highlight cases where self-interaction corrected methodologies can improve our predictive power in this emerging field.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Den kondenserade materiens fysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences -- Condensed Matter Physics (hsv//eng)

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Spin dependent transport; Coulomb blockade; Averaged self-interaction correction; Molecular magnets; Quantum information; Electronic structure

Condensed Matter Physics

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