SPIN-DEPENDENT CONDUCTANCE OF A TYPICAL FISHBONE-LIKE NANOSTRUCTURE
(Received 19 June 2011 ; in final form 25 February 2012) Abstract In this study, we investigated the spin dependent electronic transport of a fishbone-like nanostructure including two magnetic atoms at its ends. The electronic conductance of this nanostructure for three different orientations of atomic magnetic moments was numerically studied when the structure was sandwiched between two nonmagnetic leads. By using Green’s function technique at the tight-binding model, we calculated the spin dependent electronic transmission coefficient. The calculated results revealed that the conductance depends on the incident electron energy as well as the magnitude and orientation of atomic magnetic moments in the nanostructure.
In this paper, we extend our previous template analysis of a self-exciting Faraday disc dynamo with a linear series motor to the case of a nonlinear series motor. This introduces two additional nonlinear symmetry-breaking terms into the governing dynamo equations. We investigate the consequences for the identification of a possible template on which the unstable periodic orbits (UPOs) lie. By computing Gauss linking numbers between pairs of UPOs, we show that their values are not incompatible with those for a template for the Lorenz attractor for its classic parameter values.