Universality of the surface magnetoelectric effect in half-metals

Authors

Chun-Gang Duan, East China Normal UniversityFollow
Ce-Wen Nan, Tsinghua University
Sitaram S. Jaswal, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Evgeny Y. Tsymbal, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

2009

Comments

Published in PHYSICAL REVIEW B 79, 2009. Copyright © 2009 The American Physical Society. Used by permission.

Abstract

An electric field applied to a ferromagnetic metal produces a surface magnetoelectric effect originating from the spin-dependent screening of the electric field which results in a change in the surface magnetization of the ferromagnet.