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MM: Fachverband Metall- und Materialphysik
MM 46: Electronic Properties II
MM 46.3: Talk
Thursday, March 26, 2009, 17:15–17:30, IFW B
A theoretical description of spin resolved transport — •Stephan Lowitzer1, Diemo Ködderitzsch1, Hubert Ebert1, and Julie B. Staunton2 — 1Department Chemie und Biochemie, LMU München, Butenandtstraße 11, 81377 München — 2Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
Spin resolved transport became during the last years a fast growing field of interest for many theoretical working groups. We present an approximative scheme to calculate the spin decomposed conductivity within the Kubo-Greenwood formalism. The electronic structure calculations are based on the fully relativistic Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker (KKR) band structure method in connection with the coherent potential approximation (CPA) alloy theory. To demonstrate the reliability of our approach we apply this formalism to Fe1−xCrx and the diluted magnetic semiconductor system (DMS) Ga1−xMnxAs.