A demonstration of a 'two terminal' single-electron transistor governed by the magnetic anisotropy of ferromagnetic electrodes connected to a metal quantum dot could give birth to a new field of single-electron spintronics.
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Weiss, D. The importance of contacts. Nature Phys 5, 859–860 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1472
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