Different steady states for spin currents in noncollinear multilayers
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2009-11-10 v1 Materials Science
Abstract
We find there are at least two different steady states for transport across noncollinear magnetic multilayers. In the conventional one there is a discontinuity in the spin current across the interfaces which has been identified as the source of current induced magnetic reversal; in the one advocated herein the spin torque arises from the spin accumulation transverse to the magnetization of a magnetic layer. These two states have quite different attributes which should be discerned by current experiments.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0405613,
title = {Different steady states for spin currents in noncollinear multilayers},
author = {Peter M Levy and Jianwei Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0405613},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages, no figure. Accepted for publication in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter