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American Physical Society, Physical review B, 10(86)

DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.86.104427

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Memristive properties of single-molecule magnets

Journal article published in 2012 by Carsten Timm, Massimiliano Di Ventra ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

Single-molecule magnets weakly coupled to two ferromagnetic leads act as memory devices in electronic circuits---their response depends on history, not just on the instantaneous applied voltage. We show that magnetic anisotropy introduces a wide separation of timescales between fast and slow relaxation processes in the system, which leads to a pronounced memory dependence in a wide intermediate time regime. We study the response to a harmonically varying bias voltage from slow to rapid driving within a master-equation approach. The system is not purely memristive but shows a partially capacitive response on short timescales. In the intermediate time regime the molecular spin can be used as the state variable in a two-terminal molecular memory device. ; Comment: 12+ pages, 12 figures