Nature Communications (Jan 2016)

Harnessing spin precession with dissipation

  • A. D. Crisan,
  • S. Datta,
  • J. J. Viennot,
  • M. R. Delbecq,
  • A. Cottet,
  • T. Kontos

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10451
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Control over the orientation of electronic spins forms the basis for spintronic devices in both classical and quantum systems. Here, the authors observe electrically-tunable dissipation-controlled spin precession in a carbon nanotube quantum dot bridging two non-collinearly magnetized electrodes.