The role of symmetry on interface states in magnetic tunnel junctions

Details The role of symmetry on interface states in magnetic tunnel junctions The role of symmetry on interface states in magnetic tunnel junctions

2001-07-03

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0107055v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

14 pages, 5 figures, accepted in PRB, v2: reference 3 completed

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.64.193404

When an electron tunnels from a metal into the barrier in a magnetic tunnel junction it has to cross the interface. Deep in the metal the eigenstates for the electron can be labelled by the point symmetry group of the bulk but around the interface this symmetry is reduced and one has to use linear combinations of the bulk states to form the eigenstates labelled by the irreducible representations of the point symmetry group of the interface. In this way there can be states localized at the interface which control tunneling. The conclusions as to which are the dominant tunneling states are different from that conventionally found.

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