Spin-polarized tunneling currents through a ferromagnetic insulator between two metallic or superconducting leads

Details Spin-polarized tunneling currents through a ferromagnetic insulator between two metallic or superconducting leads Spin-polarized tunneling currents through a ferromagnetic insulator between two metallic or superconducting leads

2007-08-21

arxiv.org/abs/0708.2881v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

15 pages, 23 figures, accepted for publication in PRB

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.76.115315

Using the Keldysh formalism the tunneling current through a hybrid structure where a confined magnetic insulator (I) is sandwiched between two non-magnetic leads is calculated. The leads can be either normal metals (M) or superconductors (S). Each region is modelled as a single band in tight-binding approximation in order to understand the formation of the tunneling current as clearly as possible. The tunneling process itself is simulated by a hybridization between the lead and insulator conduction bands. The insulator is assumed to have localized moments which can interact with the tunneling electrons. This is described by the Kondo Lattice Model (KLM) and treated within an interpolating self-energy approach. For the superconductor the mean-field BCS theory is used. The spin polarization of the current shows a strong dependence both on the applied voltage and the properties of the materials. Even for this idealized three band model there is a qualitative agreement with experiment.

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