Tunable charge and spin Seebeck effects in magnetic molecular junctions

PABLO S. CORNAGLIA; GONZALO USAJ; C. A. BALSEIRO

PHYSICAL REVIEW B

AMER PHYSICAL SOC

Lugar: New York; Año: 2012 vol. 86 p. 41107 - 41107

1098-0121

We study the charge and spin Seebeck effects in a spin-1 molecular junction as a function of temperature, applied magnetic field, and magnetic anisotropy (D) using Wilson’s numerical renormalization group.A hard-axis magnetic anisotropy produces a large enhancement of the charge Seebeck coefficient Sc (∼kB/|e|) whose value only depends on the residual interaction between quasiparticles in the low-temperature Fermi-liquid regime. In the underscreened spin-1 Kondo regime, the high sensitivity of the system to magnetic fields makes it possible to observe a sizable value for the spin Seebeck coefficient even for magnetic fields much smaller than the Kondo temperature. Similar effects can be obtained in C60 junctions where the control parameter, instead of D, is the gap between a singlet and a triplet molecular state.