Jia C.L. and Berakdar J.
Phys. Rev. B 81, pp 052406 (2010)We theoretically investigate the angular- and spin-dependent transport in normal-metal/helical-multiferroic/ ferromagnetic heterojunctions. We find a tunneling anisotropic magnetoresistance (TAMR) effect due to the spiral magnetic order in the tunnel junction and to an effective spin-orbit coupling induced by the topology of the localized magnetic moments in the multiferroic spacer. The predicted TAMR effect is efficiently controllable by an external electric field due to the magnetoelectric coupling.
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