Magnetotransport through ac driven ferromagnetic graphene nanoribbons

Highlights: • We study magnetotransport through ac driven ferromagnetic graphene nanoribbons. • In the two-terminal device under an ac field, conductance plateaus can be transmuted into the integer plateaus sequences. • Magnetic resistance exhibits an alternative transition between the sharp peak and dip at the band center under an ac field. • In the six-terminal device, the new quantized plateaus appear in the Hall resistance. -- Abstract: We present a theoretical study on the spin-dependent transport through the ferromagnetic graphene nanoribbons in the presence of a magnetic and an in-plane ac electric field, and find that when the ac field is applied, in the two-terminal ferromagnetic graphene device, for the parallel configurations of the electrodes' magnetizations, the width of the even-number conductance plateaus decrease, the new conductance plateaus appear at the odd-number positions, and the even-number conductance plateaus at the high energy are quenched under the sufficiently strong ac field. In contrast, for the antiparallel configuration of the electrodes' magnetizations, the odd-plateaus of the conductance shrink, and the new plateaus developed at the even-number positions. The magnetic resistance exhibits a successive rectangular-like oscillation structure close to the band edge, whereas experiences an alternative transition between the sharp peak and dip near the zero energy with increasing the ac field strength. In the six-terminal ferromagnetic graphene device, the variations of the longitudinal and Hall resistances' plateaus as well as the addition of the new quantized plateaus with the rise of the ac field strength are also revealed.