As magnetic tunnel junctions with different nonmagnetic spacer thicknesses t NM were
studied by magnetization and planar Hall effect (PHE) measurements. The PHE data
indicate that the magnetization reversals of the two layers are strongly correlated when the t
NM is less than 3 nm and are independent when t NM is larger than 15 nm. From the
results, it is concluded that considerable redistribution of hole wave functions plays a major …