Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2008-01-29
PHYS. REV. B 77 (2008) 165433
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
11 pages, 18 figures, submitted for publication
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.77.165433
The magnetic phase transition is experimentally known to give rise to an anomalous temperature-dependence of the electron resistivity in ferromagnetic crystals. Phenomenological theories based on the interaction between itinerant electron spins and lattice spins have been suggested to explain these observations. In this paper, we show by extensive Monte Carlo (MC) simulation the behavior of the resistivity of the spin current calculated as a function of temperature ($T$) from low-$T$ ordered phase to high-$T$ paramagnetic phase in a ferromagnetic film. We analyze in particular effects of film thickness, surface interactions and different kinds of impurities on the spin resistivity across the critical region. The origin of the resistivity peak near the phase transition is shown to stem from the existence of magnetic domains in the critical region. We also formulate in this paper a theory based on the Boltzmann's equation in the relaxation-time approximation. This equation can be solved using numerical data obtained by our simulations. We show that our theory is in a good agreement with our MC results. Comparison with experiments is discussed.
Akabli K.
Diep Hung-The
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