Friday, May 18, 2012

1205.3916 (Haiqing Xie et al.)

Tunneling anisotropic magnetoresistance in single-molecule magnet
junctions
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Haiqing Xie, Qiang Wang, Hujun Jiao, J. -Q. Liang
We theoretically investigate quantum transport through single-molecule magnet (SMM) junctions with ferromagnetic and normal-metal leads in the sequential regime. The current obtained by means of the rate-equation gives rise to the tunneling anisotropic magnetoresistance (TAMR), which varies with the angle between the magnetization direction of ferromagnetic lead and the easy axis of SMM. The angular dependence of TAMR can serve as a probe to determine experimentally the easy axis of SMM. Moreover, it is demonstrated that both the magnitude and sign of TAMR are tunable by the bias voltage, suggesting a promising TAMR based spintronic molecule-device.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.3916

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