Ph. Mavropoulos

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an overview of the basic electronic and magnetic properties of NiMnSb and Co2MnGe half-metallic alloys, and show that the magnetic properties in these compounds are intrinsically related to the appearance of the minority-spin gap.

TL;DR: In most cases, for large enough film thicknesses the tunneling is dominated by states of normal incidence on the interface, and the spin-dependent tunneling in Fe/semiconductor/Fe (001) junctions is discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the spin-orbit interaction can cause a nonvanishing density of states (DOS) within the minority-spin band gap of half metals around the Fermi level.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the electron dynamics in the Skyrmion phase of Fe-rich Mn_{1-x}Fe_{x}Ge alloys is governed by Berry phase physics, and the adiabatic Berry phase picture is violated in the Mn-rich limit of the alloys.

TL;DR: In this article, the decoherence of electrons due to magnetic impurities was exploited via weak localization to resolve a long-standing question concerning the classic Kondo systems of Fe impurities in the noble metals gold and silver.