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The electronic structure of the A-type antiferromagnetic insulator LaMnO3 is investigated by the GW approximation. The band gap and spectrum are in a good agreement with experimental observation. The on-site/off-site dynamical screened…
It is shown that, upon the electron quantum transport via the nanostructure containing a spin dimer, the spin-flip processes caused by the s-f exchange interaction between electron and dimer spins lead to the Fano resonance effects. An…
We investigate theoretically spin-resolved transport, spin filtering, and nonreciprocal effects in an Altermagnet/Ising superconductor (AM/ISC) junction with a spin-active interface. Using a modified Bogoliubov-de Gennes framework within…
Mismatched junctions formed by two C$_3$N zigzag nanoribbons of different widths provide a useful setting for studying quantum interference effects involving edge state transport. A crucial ingredient for this interference to appear is,…
We demonstrate efficient spin-polarized tunneling between a ferromagnetic metal and a ferromagnetic semiconductor with highly mismatched conductivities. This is indicated by a large tunneling magnetoresistance (up to 30%) at low…
The interface structure of Fe/MgO(100) magnetic tunnel junctions predicted by density functional theory (DFT) depends significantly on the choice of exchange and correlation functional. Bader analysis reveals that structures obtained by…
Novel imaging spin-filter techniques, which are based on low energy electron diffraction, are currently of high scientific interest. To improve the spin-detection efficiency a variety of new materials have been introduced in recent years. A…
We propose encapsulating type-A antiferromagnetic semiconductors between graphene layers to realize a gate-tunable synthetic antiferromagnet with nonrelativistic spin splitting, enabling efficient spintronic transport via graphene. Ab…
We report on high-resolution differential conductance experiments on nanoscale superconductor/ferromagnet tunnel junctions with ultra-thin oxide tunnel barriers. We observe subgap conductance features which are symmetric with respect to…
A combination of spectroscopic probes was used to develop a detailed experimental description of the transport and magnetic properties of superlattices composed of the paramagnetic metal CaRuO$_3$ and the antiferromagnetic insulator…
We report density functional studies of electron rich interfaces between KTaO3 or KNbO3 and CaSnO3 or ZnSnO3 and in particular the nature of the interfacial electron gasses that can be formed. We find that depending on the details these may…
Hybrid heterostructures based on bulk GaN and two-dimensional (2D) materials offer novel paths toward nanoelectronic devices with engineered features. Here, we study the electronic properties of a mixed-dimensional heterostructure composed…
Superconductor$-$ferromagnetic-insulator heterostructures are paradigmatic systems for studying the mutual influence of superconductivity and magnetism via proximity effects. In particular, spin-split superconductivity is realized in such…
We demonstrate that electronic and magnetic properties of graphene can be tuned via proximity of multiferroic substrate. Our first-principles calculations performed both with and without spin-orbit coupling clearly show that by contacting…
We report the direct measurement of antiferromagnetic spin polarization at the oxygen sites in the multiferroic TbMn2O5, through resonant soft x-ray magnetic scattering. This supports recent theoretical models suggesting that the oxygen…
Asymmetry of conduction of electrons in the spin majority and minority bands of a ferromagnetic metal is well known to produce spin accumulation at the boundary with a normal metal when a current is injected through the interface. However,…
We study how strain affects orbital ordering and magnetism at the interface between SrMnO$_3$ and LaMnO$_3$ from density-functional calculations and interpret the basic results in terms of a three-site Mn-O-Mn model. Magnetic interaction…
Recent experiments have found new magnetic behaviors, which are different from the parent bulk materials, at the interfaces between 3$d$ and 5$d$ oxides such as SrMnO$_3$ (SMO) and SrIrO$_3$ (SIO). The system is of considerable interest due…
With a combined ab initio density functional and model Hamiltonian approach we establish that in the recently discovered multiferroic phase of the manganite Sr$_{1/2}$Ba$_{1/2}$MnO$_{3}$ the polar distortion of Mn and O ions is stabilized…
Using first-principles density functional calculations, electronic and optical properties of ferromagnetic semiconductor EuO are investigated. In particular, we have developed a way to obtain the spin-dependent optical response of the…