Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Letter › peer-review
<mark>Journal publication date</mark> | 1998 |
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<mark>Journal</mark> | Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter |
Issue number | 42 |
Volume | 10 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Pages (from-to) | L691-L697 |
Publication Status | Published |
<mark>Original language</mark> | English |
We present a numerical study of conductance oscillations of transition metal multilayers as a function of layer thickness. Using a realistic material-specific tight-binding model, we show that for disorder-free layers with random thicknesses but clean interfaces, long-period oscillations in the conductance can occur, which are reminiscent of those found in structures exhibiting GMR. Using a heuristic effective mass model, we argue that these oscillations arise from beating between the Fermi wavevector and a class of wavevectors characteristic of the superlattice structure.