Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in transport through single-molecule transistors

The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction is shown to result in a canting of spins in a single-molecule transistor. We predict nonlinear transport signatures of this effect induced by spin-orbit coupling for the generic case of a molecular dimer. The conductance is calculated using a master equation and is found to exhibit a non-trivial dependence on the magnitude and direction of an external magnetic field. We show how three-terminal transport measurements allow for a determination of the coupling vector characterizing the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. In particular, we show how its orientation, defining the intramolecular spin chirality, can be probed with ferromagnetic electrodes.