Tuesday, June 5, 2012

1206.0615 (Rudolf Sykora et al.)

Tunnelling anisotropic magnetoresistance of Fe/GaAs/Ag(001) junctions
from first principles: Effect of hybridized interface resonances
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Rudolf Sykora, Ilja Turek
Results of first-principles calculations of the Fe/GaAs/Ag(001) epitaxial tunnel junctions reveal that hybridization of interface resonances formed at both interfaces can enhance the tunnelling anisotropic magnetoresistance (TAMR) of the systems. This mechanism is manifested by a non-monotonic dependence of the TAMR effect on the thickness of the tunnel barrier, with a maximum for intermediate thicknesses. A detailed scan of k-resolved transmissions over the two-dimensional Brillouin zone proves an interplay between a few hybridization-induced hot spots and a contribution to the tunnelling from the vicinity of the Gamma-bar point. This interpretation is supported by calculated properties of a simple tight-binding model of the junction which reproduce qualitatively most of the features of the first-principles theory.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.0615

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