Spin-torque shot noise in magnetic tunnel junctions
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2009-11-13 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons
Abstract
Spin polarized current may transfer angular momentum to a ferromagnet, resulting in a spin-torque phenomenon. At the same time the shot noise, associated with the current, leads to a non-equilibrium stochastic force acting on the ferromagnet. We derive stochastic version of Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation for a magnetization of a ''free'' ferromagnetic layer in contact with a ''fixed'' ferromagnet. We solve the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation and show that the non-equilibrium noise yields to a non-monotonous dependence of the precession spectrum linewidth on the current.
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@article{arxiv.0803.2101,
title = {Spin-torque shot noise in magnetic tunnel junctions},
author = {A. L. Chudnovskiy and J. Swiebodzinski and A. Kamenev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.2101},
year = {2009}
}
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5 pages, 2 figures