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Low Voltage I-V Characteristics in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions
We show that elastic currents that take into account variations of the tunnel
transmitivity with voltage and a large ratio of majority to minority spin
densities of states of the band, can account for the low voltage current
anomalies observed in magnet-oxide-magnet junctions. The anomalies can be
positive, negative or have a mixed form, depending of the position of the Fermi
level in the band, in agreement with observations. Magnon contribution is
negligible small to account for the sharp drop of the magnetoresistance with
the voltage bias.Comment: 8 pages, 3 postscript figure