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Thermally assisted current-induced magnetization reversal in SrRuO3

Materials Science 2013-03-29 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We inject a sequence of 1 ms current pulses into uniformly magnetized patterns of the itinerant ferromagnet SrRuO3 until a magnetization reversal is detected. We detect the effective temperature during the pulse and find that the cumulative pulse time required to induce magnetization reversal depends exponentially on 1/T. In addition, we find that the cumulative pulse time also depends exponentially on the current amplitude. These observations indicate current-induced magnetization reversal assisted by thermal fluctuations.

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@article{arxiv.1303.7067,
  title  = {Thermally assisted current-induced magnetization reversal in SrRuO3},
  author = {Yishai Shperber and Omer Sinwani and Netanel Naftalis and Daniel Bedau and James W. Reiner and Lior Klein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.7067},
  year   = {2013}
}