Refined electron-spin transport model for single-element ferromagnetic systems: Application to nickel nanocontacts
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Título: | Refined electron-spin transport model for single-element ferromagnetic systems: Application to nickel nanocontacts |
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Autor/es: | Dednam, Wynand | Sabater, Carlos | Tal, Oren | Palacios Burgos, Juan José | Botha, André Erasmus | Caturla, Maria J. |
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: | Grupo de Nanofísica | Física de la Materia Condensada |
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Física Aplicada |
Palabras clave: | Electron-spin transport model | Single-element | Ferromagnetic systems | Nickel nanocontacts |
Área/s de conocimiento: | Física Aplicada |
Fecha de publicación: | 14-dic-2020 |
Editor: | American Physical Society |
Cita bibliográfica: | Physical Review B. 2020, 102: 245415. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.102.245415 |
Resumen: | Through a combination of atomistic spin-lattice dynamics simulations and relativistic ab initio calculations of electronic transport we shed light on unexplained electrical measurements in nickel nanocontacts created by break junction experiments under cryogenic conditions (4.2 K). We implement post-self-consistent-field corrections in the conductance calculations to account for spin-orbit coupling and the noncollinearity of the spins, resulting from the spin-lattice dynamics. We find that transverse magnetic domain walls are formed preferentially in (111)-oriented face-centered-cubic nickel atomic-sized contacts, which also form elongated constrictions, giving rise to enhanced individual domain wall magnetoresistance. Our calculations show that the ambiguity surrounding the conductance of a priori uniformly magnetized nickel nanocontacts can be traced back to the crystallographic orientation of the nanocontacts, rather than spontaneously formed magnetic domain walls “pinned” at their narrowest points. |
Patrocinador/es: | This work was supported by the Generalitat Valenciana through Grant No. PROMETEO2017/139. C.S. gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Dean Fellowship of the Weizmann Institute of Science and Generalitat Valenciana (Grant No. CDEIGENT2018/028). O.T. appreciates the support of the Harold Perlman family, and acknowledges funding by a research grant from Dana and Yossie Hollander, the Israel Science Foundation (Grant No. 1089/15), the Minerva Foundation (Grant No. 120865), and The Ministry of Science and Technology of Israel (Grant No. 3-16244). J.J.P. acknowledges financial support from Spanish MINECO through Grants No. FIS2016-80434-P and No. PID2019-109539GB-C43, the Fundación Ramón Areces, the María de Maeztu Program for Units of Excellence in R&D (Grant No. CEX2018-000805-M), the Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid through the Nanomag COST-CM Program (Grant No. S2018/NMT-4321), the European Union Seventh Framework Programme under Grant Agreement No. 604391 Graphene Flagship, the Centro de Computación Científica of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the computer resources at MareNostrum and the technical support provided by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Grant No. FI-2019-2-0007). The SLD and DFT calculations in this paper were performed on the high-performance computing facilities of the University of Alicante and the University of South Africa. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/111262 |
ISSN: | 2469-9950 (Print) | 2469-9969 (Online) |
DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevB.102.245415 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Derechos: | © 2020 American Physical Society |
Revisión científica: | si |
Versión del editor: | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.102.245415 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | INV - Física de la Materia Condensada - Artículos de Revistas INV - Grupo de Nanofísica - Artículos de Revistas Investigaciones financiadas por la UE |
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