Time-dependent single electron tunneling through a shuttling nano-island

TL;DR

This paper presents a theoretical approach to calculate single-electron tunneling spectra and conductance in a shuttling nano-island system with fully spin-polarized leads, highlighting time-dependent effects near Coulomb blockade boundaries.

Contribution

It introduces a canonical transformation method to exactly solve the adiabatic component and perturbatively include non-adiabatic corrections for spin-polarized tunneling.

Findings

Time-dependent conductance corrections are significant at finite bias.

The approach accurately captures spin effects in tunneling spectra.

Non-adiabatic corrections influence transport near Coulomb blockade edges.

Abstract

We offer a general approach to calculation of single-electron tunneling spectra and conductance of a shuttle oscillating between two half-metallic leads with fully spin polarized carriers. In this case the spin-flip processes are completely suppressed and the problem may be solved by means of canonical transformation, where the adiabatic component of the tunnel transparency is found exactly, whereas the non-adiabatic corrections can be taken into account perturbatively. Time-dependent corrections to the tunnel conductance of moving shuttle become noticeable at finite bias in the vicinity of the even/odd occupation boundary at the Coulomb diamond diagram.