Ballistic anisotropic magnetoresistance

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2004-12-22

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0412637v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.127203

Electronic transport in ferromagnetic ballistic conductors is predicted to exhibit ballistic anisotropic magnetoresistance (BAMR) - a change in the ballistic conductance with the direction of magnetization. This phenomenon originates from the effect of the spin-orbit interaction on the electronic band structure which leads to a change in the number of bands crossing the Fermi energy when the magnetization direction changes. We illustrate the significance of this phenomenon by performing ab-initio calculations of the ballistic conductance in ferromagnetic Ni and Fe nanowires which display a sizable BAMR when the magnetization changes direction from parallel to perpendicular to the wire axis.

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