Abstract
The Pauli spin blockade effect in transport through two, coupled in series, single molecular magnets weakly attached to external leads is considered theoretically. By using the real-time diagrammatic technique in the lowest-order perturbation theory with respect to the coupling strength, the behavior of the current and the shot noise is studied in the nonlinear response regime. It is shown that the current suppression occurs due to the occupation of highest-weight spin states of the system. Moreover, transport properties are found to strongly depend on parameters of the double molecular magnet, such as the magnitude of spin, internal exchange interaction and the hopping between the molecules. It is also demonstrated that the current suppression may be accompanied by negative differential conductance and a large super-Poissonian shot noise. The mechanisms leading to those effects are discussed.
3 More- Received 21 April 2016
- Revised 20 June 2016
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.94.035422
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