Dynamical Mean-Field Theory for spin-dependent electron transport in spin-valve devices
| Autor: | Andrea Droghetti, Miloš M. Radonjić, Liviu Chioncel, Ivan Rungger |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons
Condensed Matter - Materials Science Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el) Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) FOS: Physical sciences ddc:530 Condensed Matter::Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.2201.13118 |
| Popis: | We present the combination of Density Functional Theory (DFT) and Dynamical Mean Field Theory (DMFT) for computing the electron transmission through two-terminals nanoscale devices. The method is then applied to metallic junctions presenting alternating Cu and Co layers, which exhibit spin-dependent charge transport and giant magnetoresistance (GMR) effect. The calculations show that the coherent transmission through the $3d$ states is greatly suppressed by electron correlations. This is mainly due to the finite lifetime induced by the electron-electron interaction and is directly related to the imaginary part of the computed many-body DMFT self-energy. At the Fermi energy, where in accordance with the Fermi-liquid behavior the imaginary part of the self-energy vanishes, the suppression of the transmission is entirely due to the shifts of the energy spectrum induced by electron correlations. Based our results, we finally suggest that the GMR measured in Cu/Co heterostructures for electrons with energies about 1 eV above the Fermi energy is a clear manifestation of dynamical correlation effects. |
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