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Inductance Due to Spin Current

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2014-03-18 v2

Abstract

The inductance of spintronic devices that transport charge neutral spin currents is discussed. It is known that in a media that contains charge neutral spins, a time-varying electric field induces a spin current. We show that since the spin current itself produces an electric field, this implies existence of inductance and electromotive force when the spin current changes with time. The relations between the electromotive force and the corresponding flux, which is a vector calculated by the cross product of electric field and the trajectory of the device, are clarified. The relativistic origin generally renders an extremely small inductance, which indicates the advantage of spin current in building low inductance devices. The same argument also explains the inductance due to electric dipole current, and applies to physical dipoles consist of polarized bound charges.

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@article{arxiv.1306.2522,
  title  = {Inductance Due to Spin Current},
  author = {Wei Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.2522},
  year   = {2014}
}

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6 pages, 1 figure

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