Physics Colloquium: Spintro-Mechanics of Single-Electronic Nanostructures
Prof. Robert Shekhter, Göteborg University, Sweden
03 November 2013, 16:00
Shenkar Building, Melamed Hall 006
A new perspective on nano-electro-mechanics opens up if one considers how the electronic spin - in addition to (or instead of) the electronic charge - couples to mechanical degrees of freedom [1, 2]. Such a possibility naturally occurs if magnetic materials are employed to build nano-mechanical devices. Nano-mechanics induced by magnetic exchange forces become possible as a result of spin-mechanical coupling. This talk presemts a short review of recent theoretical results illustrating the above mentioned phenomena in magnetic shuttle devices.
- R. I. Shekhter, L. Y. Gorelik, I. V. Krive, M. N. Kiselev, A. V. Parafilo, and M. Jonson, Nonoelectromech. Systems 1, (2013).
- R. I. Shekhter, A. Pulkin, and M. Jonson, Phys. Rev. B 86, 100404(R) (2012).