Abstract
Two unique quantum transport features, a clear appearance of Coulomb oscillations and a narrowing of Coulomb gap, are observed in an embedded ferromagnet (Ni) dot in a semiconductor wire after magnetic field application. Magnetic force microscopy analysis suggests the existence of a domain wall inside the dot before the field application, but it disappears after the field application forming a single domain in the dot. If we establish a transport model by assuming that the domain wall plays the role of a “resistive barrier,” we can explain those unique transport features in terms of “Coulomb blockade effects modified by domain dynamics.”
- Received 19 March 1998
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.5422
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