Spin-polarized transport through a processing magnetic spin coupled to ferromagnetic electrodes is studied usinga non-equilibrium Green's function approach. The characteristic of conductance is obtained at zero temperature. We findthat competition between spin-exchange interaction on the spin site and spin-orbit interaction in the barriers dominates theresonant behavior of conductance. In a parallel configuration, conductance peaks have identical amplitude. With the angle θincreasing, the width of resonant peaks is broadened or narrowed for different spin coherent states. In an anti-parallel case,spin-flip tunneling in the barriers will essentially enhance amplitude of the conductance peak.
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