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Different mechanisms of spin-dependent tunneling are analyzed with respect to their role in tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR). Microscopic calculation within a realistic model shows that direct tunneling in iron group systems leads to about a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 A. M. Bratkovsky

A suppression of tunnelling ionization of deep impurities in terahertz frequency electric fields by a magnetic field is observed. It is shown that the ionization probability at external magnetic field, B, oriented perpendicular to the…

Precisely engineered tunnel junctions exhibit a long sought effect that occurs when the energy of the electron is comparable to the potential energy of the tunneling barrier. The resistance of metal-insulator-metal tunnel junctions…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-09-25 Casey W. Miller , Zhi-Pan Li , Ivan K. Schuller , R. W. Dave , J. M. Slaughter , Johan Akerman

In this work the influence of the electric and magnetic fields over a tunneling particle in a rectangular potential barrier is shown, we have taken into account the presence of an impurity at the barrier center and the effects of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Julian A. Zuñiga , O. L. Hernandez-Rosero , S. T. Perez-Merchancano

Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) are key components of spintronic devices, such as magnetic random-access memories. Normally, MTJs consist of two ferromagnetic (FM) electrodes separated by an insulating barrier layer. Their key functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-06 Kartik Samanta , Yuan-Yuan Jiang , Tula R. Paudel , Ding-Fu Shao , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

A mechanism of quantum-mechanical tunneling is based on electron-wavefunction and is used to explain ohmic contact as well as tunnel and Zener diodes. Tunneling is the important example of wave-particle duality. In this study, an attempt is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Jianming Li

The tunneling electroresistance (TER) for ferroelectric tunnel junctions (FTJs) with BaTiO_{3} (BTO) and PbTiO}_{3} (PTO) barriers is calculated by combining the microscopic electronic structure of the barrier material with a macroscopic…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-12-17 N. F. Hinsche , M. Fechner , P. Bose , S. Ostanin , J. Henk , I. Mertig , P. Zahn

A superconductor with 4-fermion attraction, considered by Ma\'{c}kowiak and Tarasewicz is modified by adding to the Hamiltonian a long-range magnetic interaction $V$ between conduction fermions and localized distinguishable spin 1/2…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Dawid Borycki

We calculate the conductances and the tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) of double magnetic tunnel junctions, taking as a model example junctions composed of Fe/ZnSe/Fe/ZnSe/Fe (001). The calculations are done as a function of the gate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-08 J. Peralta-Ramos , A. M. Llois

The conduction electron density of states nearby single magnetic impurities, as measured recently by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), is calculated, taking into account tunneling into conduction electron states only. The Kondo effect…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 O. Újsághy , J. Kroha , L. Szunyogh , A. Zawadowski

Strength of the the symmetry spin filtering effect (as defined by the asymptotic behavior of the tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) at large barrier thicknesses induced by this effect) is studied for the Fe/MgO/Fe magnetic tunnel junctions…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-09 Sergey V. Faleev , Stuart S. P. Parkin , Oleg N. Mryasov

The surface states of a topological insulator are described by an emergent relativistic massless Dirac equation in 2+1 dimensions. In contrast to graphene, there is an odd number of Dirac points, and the electron spin is directly coupled to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Qin Liu , Chao-Xing Liu , Cenke Xu , Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We study the transport properties in nodal line semimetals with short-ranged impurity potentials at zero temperature. By computing the Drude conductivity and the corrections from the interference of particle and hole trajectories, we find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-26 Hui Yang , Fa Wang

In this letter we consider a magnetic impurity in a one-dimensional spin-$1/2$ Fermi gas with infinitely strong repulsive interaction between fermions. We rigorously prove that, independent of whether the magnetic coupling between impurity…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-04-12 Deping Zhang , Wei Chen , Hui Zhai

Magnetite (Fe3O4) based tunnel junctions with turret/mesa structure have been investigated for different barrier materials (SrTiO3, NdGaO3, MgO, SiO2, and Al2O(3-x)). Junctions with a Ni counter electrode and an aluminium oxide barrier…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Reisinger , P. Majewski , M. Opel , L. Alff , R. Gross

We consider magnetic impurities in a two dimensional superfluid Fermi gas in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. By using the methods of t-matrix and Green's function, we find spin-orbit coupling has some dramatic impacts on the effects of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-01-07 Zhongbo Yan , Xiaosen Yang , Liang Sun , Shaolong Wan

We theoretically investigate magnetoresistance (MR) effects in connection with spin filtering in quantum-coherent transport through tunnel junctions based on non-magnetic/semimagnetic heterostructures. We find that spin filtering in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. C. Egues , C. Gould , G. Richter , L. W. Molenkamp

In materials with strong local Coulomb interactions, simple defects such as atomic substitutions strongly affect both macroscopic and local properties of the system. A nonmagnetic impurity, for instance, is seen to induce magnetism nearby.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 H. Alloul , J. Bobroff , M. Gabay , P. J. Hirschfeld

Effects of impurities and disorder on transport properties by electronic quasiparticles in superconducting iron pnictides are theoretically considered. The most prominent new features compared to the case of pure material should appear at…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-01-08 Yuriy G. Pogorelov , Mario C. Santos , Vadim M. Loktev

Altermagnets can replace ferromagnets in tunnel junctions, yielding large tunneling magnetoresistance, ultrafast switching, and low-power functionality. While most studies explore the linear-response regime, interesting features emerge at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Sajjan Sheoran , Luke Keenan , Declan Nell , Stefano Sanvito