Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2005-06-11
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
9 Pages, 6 figures, 1 table
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.72.054443
Using density functional theory implemented within a tight-binding linear muffin-tin orbital method we perform calculations of electronic, magnetic and transport properties of ferromagnetic free-standing fcc Co wires with diameters up to 1.5 nm. We show that finite-size effects play an important role in these nanowires resulting in oscillatory behavior of electronic charge and the magnetization as a function of the wire thickness, and a non-monotonic behavior of spin-dependent quantized conductance. We calculate the magnetoresistance (MR) of a domain wall (DW) modeled by a spin-spiral region of finite width sandwiched between two semi-infinite Co wire leads. We find that the DW MR decreases very rapidly, on the scale of a few interatomic layers, with the increasing DW width. The largest MR value of about 250% is predicted for an abrupt DW in the monatomic wire. We show that, for some energy values, the density of states and the conductance may be non-zero only in one spin channel, making the MR for the abrupt DW infinitely large. We also demonstrate that for the abrupt DW a large MR may occur due to the hybridization between two spin subbands across the DW interface. We do not find, however, such a behavior at the Fermi energy for the Co wires considered.
Burton James D.
Jaswal Sitaram S.
Sabirianov Renat F.
Solanki A. K.
Tsymbal Evgeny Y.
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