Abstract
The tunnel magneto-Seebeck effect is the dependence of the thermopower of magnetic tunnel junctions on the magnetic configuration. It is conventionally interpreted in terms of a thermoelectric generalization of the tunnel magnetoresistance. Here, we investigate the heat-driven electron transport in these junctions associated with electron-magnon scattering, using stochastic Landau-Lifshitz phenomenology and quantum kinetic theory. Our findings challenge the widely accepted single-electron picture of the tunneling thermopower in magnetic junctions.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 094429 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Physical Review B |
| Volume | 96 |
| Issue number | 9 |
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| Publication status | Published - 25 Sept 2017 |