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Transistors realized on 2D antiferromagnetic semiconductor CrPS$_4$ exhibit large magnetoconductance, due to magnetic-field-induced changes in magnetic state. The microscopic mechanism coupling conductance and magnetic state is not…
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We make a theoretical study of the quantum oscillations of the tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) as a function of the spacer layer thickness. Such oscillations were recently observed in tunneling junctions with a nonmagnetic metallic spacer…