https://doi.org/10.1007/s100510050763
On the orientational dependence of giant magnetoresistance
1
Institut für Technische Elektrochemie, Technische Universität
Wien, Getreidemarkt 9/158, 1060 Wien, Austria
2
Center for Computational Materials Science, Gumpendorferstrasse 1a, 1060 Wien, Austria
3
Department of Theoretical Physics, Technical University Budapest, Budafoki út
8, 1521 Budapest, Hungary
4
Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, 18040 Praha 8, Czech Republic
5
Department of Physics, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
6
Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université de Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex,
France
Received:
30
November
1998
Published online: 15 May 1999
The functional dependence of the giant magnetoresistance (GMR)
with respect to the relative angle between the orientations of the
magnetization in the magnetic slabs of a trilayer system is calculated by
using the Kubo-Greenwood formula for electrical transport together with the
fully-relativistic spin-polarized screened Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker method for
semi-infinite systems and the coherent potential approximation. It is found
that the functional dependence of the GMR is essentially of the form 
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PACS: 71.20.Be – Transition metals and alloys / 72.15-v – Electronic conduction in metals and alloys / 75.30.Et – Exchange and superexchange interactions
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 1999
