Shot noises of spin and charge currents in a
ferromagnet-quantum-dot-ferromagnet system

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Front. Phys. ›› 2008, Vol. 3 ›› Issue (3) : 280-293. DOI: 10.1007/s11467-008-0026-y

Shot noises of spin and charge currents in a ferromagnet-quantum-dot-ferromagnet system

ZHAO Hong-kang¹, WANG Jian²

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We have investigated the shot noises of charge and spin current by considering the spin polarized electron tunneling through a ferromagnet-quantum-dot-ferromagnet system. We have derived the spin polarized current noise matrix, from which we can derive general expressions of shot noises associated with charge and spin currents. The spin and charge currents are intimately related to the polarization angles, and they behave quite differently from each other. The shot noise of charge current is symmetric about the gate voltage whose structure is modified by the Zeeman field considerably. There exists oscillations in spin current shot noise in the absence of source-drain bias at zero temperature, and it is asymmetric in the positive and negative regimes of sourcedrain voltage. The shot noise of spin current behaves quite differently from the shot noise of charge current, since the spin current components I_x^s, I_y^s oscillate sinusoidally with the frequency ?_? in the ?th lead, while the I_z^s component of spin current is independent of time.

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ZHAO Hong-kang, WANG Jian. Shot noises of spin and charge currents in a ferromagnet-quantum-dot-ferromagnet system. Front. Phys., 2008, 3(3): 280‒293 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-008-0026-y

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