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A model of coherent tunneling, which combines multi-orbital tight-binding approximation with Landauer-B\"uttiker formalism, is developed and applied to all-semiconductor heterostructures containing (Ga,Mn)As ferromagnetic layers. A…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 P. Sankowski , P. Kacman , J. A. Majewski , T. Dietl

We study spin-dependent transport properties in magnetic tunneling junctions (MTJs) with semiconductor barriers, Fe/CuInSe$_2$/Fe(001) and Fe/CuGaSe$_2$/Fe(001). By analyzing their transmittances at zero bias voltage on the basis of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-02 Keisuke Masuda , Yoshio Miura

We study the transport property for armchair-edge graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) with an adatom coupling to a semi-infinite quantum wire. Using the nonequilibrium Green's function approach with tight-binding approximation, we demonstrate that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Xiongwen Chen , Kehui Song , Benhu Zhou , Haiyan Wang , Guanghui Zhou

The 'Brillouin zone spin filtering' mechanism of enhanced tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) is described for magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ) and studied on an example of the MTJ with hcp Co electrodes and hexagonal BN (h-BN) spacer. Our…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-16 Sergey V. Faleev , Stuart S. P. Parkin , Oleg N. Mryasov

In this paper, we develop a nonequilibrium theory for transient electron transport dynamics in nanostructures based on the Feynman-Vernon influence functional approach. We extend our previous work on the exact master equation describing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-10 Jinshuang Jin , Matisse W. Y. Tu , Wei-Min Zhang , YiJing Yan

We develop a numerically exact scheme for resumming certain classes of Feynman diagrams in the self-consistent perturbation expansion for the electron and magnon self-energies in the nonequilibrium Green function formalism applied to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-24 Farzad Mahfouzi , Branislav K. Nikolic

Two-terminal spintronic devices remain challenging to model under realistic operating conditions, where the interplay of complex electronic structures, correlation effects and bias-driven non-equilibrium dynamics may significantly impact…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-25 Declan Nell , Milos Radonjic , Ivan Rungger , Liviu Chioncel , Stefano Sanvito , Andrea Droghetti

We demonstrate an efficient nonequilibrium Green's function transport calculation procedure based on the real-space finite-difference method. The direct inversion of matrices for obtaining the self-energy terms of electrodes is…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-09 Tomoya Ono , Yoshiyuki Egami , Kikuji Hirose

We present a unified transport theory of hybrid structures, in which a confined normal state ($N$) sample is sandwiched between two leads each of which can be either a ferromagnet ($F$) or a superconductor ($S$) via tunnel barriers. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Z. Y. Zeng , Baowen Li , F. Claro

An efficient implementation of the nonequilibrium Green function (NEGF) method combined with the density functional theory (DFT) using localized pseudo-atomic orbitals (PAOs) is presented for electronic transport calculations of a system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Taisuke Ozaki , Kengo Nishio , Hiori Kino

Oscillatory tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) as a function of spacer thickness is investigated theoretically for a magnetic tunnel junction with a nonmagnetic layer inserted between the tunnel barrier and the ferromagnetic layer. TMR is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Changsik Choi , Byung Chan Lee

We explore electron transport through a moebius strip attached to two metallic electrodes by the use of Green's function technique. A parametric approach is used based on the tight-binding model to characterize the electron transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Santanu K. Maiti

We use spin-transfer-driven ferromagnetic resonance (ST-FMR) to measure the spin-transfer torque vector T in MgO-based magnetic tunnel junctions as a function of the offset angle between the magnetic moments of the electrodes and as a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Wang , Y. -T. Cui , J. Z. Sun , J. A. Katine , R. A. Buhrman , D. C. Ralph

We investigate the transport characteristics of monolayer graphene p-n junctions by means of the non-equilibrium Green's function technique. It is shown that thanks to the high interband tunneling of chiral fermions and to a finite bandgap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-11 V. Hung Nguyen , A. Bournel , P. Dollfus

We calculate the tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) of Fe$\mid$ZnSe$\mid$Fe$\mid$ZnSe$\mid$Fe (001) double magnetic tunnel junctions as a function of the in-between Fe layer's thickness, and compare these results with those of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Peralta-Ramos , A. M. Llois

The Landauer-Buettiker formalism combined with the tight-binding transfer matrix method is used to describe the results of recent experiments: the high tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) in (Ga,Mn)As-based trilayers and highly polarized spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Sankowski , P. Kacman , J. Majewski , T. Dietl

Antiferromagnetic tunnel junctions (AFMTJs) can exhibit large tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR), making them promising candidates for ultrafast and field-robust spintronic devices. Here, we elucidate the role of band symmetry in governing…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-26 Mohamed Elekhtiar , Ding-Fu Shao , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

We present a Non-Equilibrium Green's Function based model for spin torque transfer (STT) devices which provides quantitative agreement with experimentally measured (1) differential resistances, (2) Magnetoresistance (MR), (3) In-plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Deepanjan Datta , Behtash Behin-Aein , Sayeef Salahuddin , Supriyo Datta

Spin-dependent transport through an interacting single-level quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic leads with non-collinear magnetizations is analyzed theoretically. The transport properties and average spin of the dot are investigated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. Rudzinski , J. Barnas , R. Swirkowicz , M. Wilczynski

We employ dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) combined with density functional theory (DFT) and the non-equilibrium Green's function technique to investigate the steady-state transport properties of an Fe/MgO/Fe magnetic tunnel junction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-11 Declan Nell , Stefano Sanvito , Ivan Rungger , Andrea Droghetti